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

Iranians in the business of Persian rugs — which are renowned for their artistry and craftsmanship — said instability in the ...

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 ...

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Kabul: 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 Centre overlaid by ...

KASHAN, Iran (AP) — As the Trump administration works to unravel Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, the producers of the country’s famed Persian carpets fear they will lose vital markets.

Tory Ferrey’s custom bumper sticker might read: Make rugs, not war. But the White Bear Lake resident does not object to art that does both: war rugs. “At first I didn’t want any of them,” she said. “I ...

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 ...

An authentic Persian rug is hard to come by. Faced with the prospect of tracking one down on their own, most shoppers opt to defer the legwork to a dealer with years of trade expertise. The process ...

Persian rugs in Toronto may not be as in demand as they once were, but the luxury of having an authentic Iranian carpet will never go out of style. There’s an art form to buying and selling Persian ...