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The store offers a direct connection between customers and the artisans behind the products, many of whom are Afghan and Pakistani weavers creating rugs that take months to complete.

This rug found its way from northern Afghanistan to Okinawa as a result of a carpet trade created to serve an off-base US military market. Its importer, a Pakistani expatriate, told me the most ...