Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The rug designs tend to contain symbols – AK-47s, 9/11 and drones – that reflect an outsider’s understanding of war. Kevin Sudeith ...

When Shams Frough graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago, he had two major goals: to make a little money before starting medical school and to support weavers in Afghanistan. The Taliban ...

To save the women of Afghanistan, Connie Duckworth interweaves business and charity. At a recent cocktail party at New York's Connoisseur's Antique Fair, Manolo Blahnik-heeled women cooed over ...

Unknown maker in Afghanistan, “Twin Towers Rug,” after 2001, acquired in Kabul, Afghanistan, private collection, 2004, knotted wool, 32 ¼ x 22 ¾ inches (all images courtesy SMoCA unless noted) ...

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, 43 ...

This weekend, I had the pleasure of visiting “Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan,” a new exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum that showcases a project to revive Afghanistan’s cultural ...

SEATTLE – When Afghanistan's Taliban government became America's avowed enemy, rug dealers started to worry. Some customers at Rugs and Arts of Asia, a store in Seattle's Pioneer Square retail ...

Amid piles of flowery and geometric carpets in an Afghan shop sits a pink rug of a Kalashnikov rifle framed by hand grenades. Another shows planes hitting a World Trade Center overlaid by Afghan and ...

Americans have a thing for Persian rugs, which have their roots in the region that makes up modern-day Iran. We love the symmetry of their central designs and detailed borders, which typically sport ...

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When it comes to what to depict on rugs, Afghan weavers traditionally turn to what’s most familiar. So in the 1980s, when the Mujahedeen were fighting back the Soviet occupation, some local weavers ...