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 ...

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 Import Expo (CIIE), ongoing from November 5 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...