Kabul, Afghanistan - Recent Storyline: Three sisters who weave high-quality carpets in Afghanistan's Kabul see an opportunity for their craft to reach global buyers at the China International ...

This growth in the carpet industry brings vital economic support to Afghanistan's workforce, particularly women, who are heavily involved in this sector. Despite these achievements, the ...

a handmade Afghan wool carpet is now on display at #CIIE2024. How has life changed for Kabir Hamed, an exhibitor who has attended the CIIE five times? Here is his story from Afghanistan: ...

You may follow him at Twitter @FidelRahmati The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has reported that Afghanistan’s annual carpet production has surged to an unprecedented level ...

to be a luxurious Afghan carpet. Spanning decades and continents, the book indeed dwells “unsentimentally on shifting homes and lost ancestral homelands, distant memories and fragmented family ties,” ...

In a clever interplay between the imagined and the actual, he employed mathematical formulae to create a digital design for a traditional Afghan carpet then gave it to artisans in Afghanistan ...

carpet, for which the family will get about 12,000 Afghanis (152 pounds). This is a rare bright spot in the economy of Afghanistan, one of the world's most wretchedly poor nations. Prices paid to ...

"We brought many varieties of newly designed handmade Afghan carpets to the expo to better cater to the needs of Chinese consumers," said Ali Faiz from Biraro Trading Company, which has ...

In a report by the U.S. Embassy in Kabul dated May 2002, "Reviving the Afghan Carpet Industry," the embassy said that "the largely expatriate Afghan carpet industry must be enticed to return to ...

“Everyone knows about Turkmen carpets, about Azerbaijani or Afghan carpets, but no one really knows about Kazakh carpets, although the origins of carpet weaving date back to the Saka period,” said ...