COLUMBIA, PA — Orientiq, a new store specializing in hand-woven oriental rugs, has officially opened its doors in Columbia, Lancaster County. The grand opening celebrations took place on ...

He opened Kapisa Rugs, an Evanston rug store, in March of 2020, and began selling hand woven carpets imported from a number of countries, including Iran, Turkey and Afghanistan to accomplish those ...

They are hand-woven by Hazara weavers and the couple brought them in their suitcases from Afghanistan to the U.S. in 2017. Marisa Peñaloza hide caption toggle caption ...

In nine Afghan villages this year, 43 women used new looms to weave their magic for an unlikely customer far away — the world’s largest office furniture company, Steelcase Inc. Their creations ...

Rugs woven by Afghan women who've lost their jobs in the public sector. ... By selling traditional Afghan rugs in Japan, ... My goal is to one day hand this store down. 25:33. 7:00 p.m. closing time.

So in the 1980s, when the Mujahedeen were fighting back the Soviet occupation, some local weavers abandoned flowers and water jugs to illustrate what their days consisted of back then: war. “My ...

At first, the fringed rug seems much like any other woven Afghan textile. Large birds -- some flying east, some west -- are woven into a pungent red background and framed by a floral border in ...

This may be the dark side of war rugs. Although Afghan weavers are traditionally women, ... on the other hand, the rugs that had been woven in Pakistan became rare and therefore more valuable.

Zulmai, an Afghan Carpet seller, displays his "war rug" featuring a variety of weapons to Army Lt. Col. Chris Kubik at his shop in Camp Eggers, the U.S. base in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 12.