Turkmen weavers in northern Afghanistan have been weaving rugs for thousands of years. This heavy textile, made for a wide variety of utilit...
Afghan war rugs
Keeping the war theme Afghan war rugs include hand woven images from both the Soviet and the current ongoing conflict. Little is know as to ...
Contemporary art in the form of Afghan tribal textiles. Warrug.com offers genuine, hand woven Afghan rugs conservatively dated. Warrug also has the most exhaustive educational resources to identify and date conflict carpets from Afghanistan.
Read more from Professor Rose at http://penn.museum/blog/author/brianrose/ Visit the Penn Museum to see the Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan exhibition running…
The prelude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSqtKrkYlsE 3 min 50 sec Every time there is war in a region, the locals look for ways to ease their frustration in…
Contemporary art in the form of Afghan tribal textiles. Warrug.com offers genuine, hand woven Afghan rugs conservatively dated. Warrug also has the most exhaustive educational resources to identify and date conflict carpets from Afghanistan.
Newly released images of an unsettling collection of carpets depict the conflicts that have ravaged Afghanistan for the past 40 years.
As part of its cultural programme for the centenary of the First World War, MART is exhibiting 50 war rugs from Afghanistan at the Casa d’Arte Futurista Depero, Rovereto.
Afghan weavers have been incorporating contemporary images of war into their rugs since 1979, when Soviet forces occupied major areas of the country. Following 9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan, helicopters, hand grenades, and even predator drones have begun to feature in the intricate designs. Online business WarRug.com has been curating some of the best examples from the region since the mid 1990s, with prices ranging from $300 up to several thousand. All photographs: Kevin Sudeith/ Warrug.com
Contemporary art in the form of Afghan tribal textiles. Warrug.com offers genuine, hand woven Afghan rugs conservatively dated. Warrug also has the most exhaustive educational resources to identify and date conflict carpets from Afghanistan.
Afghanistan has suffered through decades of war. The modern history of violence has seeped into the nation's ancient art of rug making — rugs now feature imagery of tanks, AK-47s and U.S. drones.
Contemporary art in the form of Afghan tribal textiles. Warrug.com offers genuine, hand woven Afghan rugs conservatively dated. Warrug also has the most exhaustive educational resources to identify and date conflict carpets from Afghanistan.
Afghanistan’s women weavers have transformed traditional textiles into amazing and complex icons of war, change, and modernity
New Afghan Folk Art Carpets, Hmmmmm!
The 9th annual Sartirana Textile Show will take place from 19-22 September 2013 at Sartirana Castle in Lomellina, near Milan, Italy. More than fifty dealers, national and international, will be participating in one of the largest ever such shows, with a programme that includes a cultural exhibition and a lecture programme.
Woven Afghan war rug with a dark brown background, wide beige border and very short beige tassels. The iconography, mainly in olive green, brown and red colours, depicts convoys of armoured vehicles and tanks travelling up a mountain pass with planes and helicopters flying overhead for support. Featured in the centre of the rug is a stylised map of Afghanistan and two buildings. The wide border includes alternating tanks and high-flying bomber planes. Inscriptions in Persian.
Afghanistan Kriegteppich 2014/15. 7x 4 feet Very rare hand-knotted Warrug Afghanistan Kriegteppich Afghan No.2014-15. The war rug tradition of Afghanistan has its origins in the decade of Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1979, and has continued through subsequent military, political and social conflicts.
