Other rugs are listed at up to $6,000 on online platforms. "We earn very little," said Benchri. "The intermediaries decide the price, and we have no choice but to accept it because this is our ...

Though influenced by Persian rugs, the Borchalo carpets produced by Zemfira and other local weavers are made of woollen yarn, ...

Spotted by Julie and promptly admired by all of us: the Oprheu collection of eight wool rugs by Lisbon-based designers Garcé ...

Navajo rug weaving tradition provides cultural and economic sustenance for elders like Vina Horseherder, supported by events ...

Mountain banjo-pickers and ballad singers, Chinese lion dancers, Indian sand painters, basket and rug weavers, New Orleans jazz bands, and a Bohemian hammer dulcimer band from Texas combined with a ...

The weaver's back is in bad condition, and she has to weave the carpet in a curved way and work. Narrator: The process of weaving a Persian rug differs slightly with each variety, but generally ...

The group works with a network of weavers, all of them older women from Georgia’s Muslim Azerbaijani ethnic minority. Though influenced by Persian rugs, the Borchalo carpets produced by Zemfira ...