Isaac Vásquez Garcia hauled a hank of wool out of a steaming vat of red dye and grinned: “Bugs,” said the patriarch of a family of rug weavers in the small town of Teotitlán del Valle in southern ...
As weaving skills are evaporating in Finland, so is the ability to design rag rugs.
Moroccan carpets are prized for their beauty and can fetch hundreds of dollars in stores. But little of that money ends up in the hands of the women who spend months weaving the carpets. Rug weavers ...
It was 5:00 a.m. in Marrakech and I could hear the call to prayer from my bed. Birds were already beginning to chirp and while this pre-dawn wake-up call would have been hell in a cold November New ...
The art of knot and weave is as ancient as the oldest civilisation itself. An exhibition on such hand woven rugs hosted by Tulsi’s Arterior, a store known for its finely handcrafted teak furniture, ...
Sometimes, Lis Barsuglia-Madsen and her husband Michael would like winter to be twice as long as it is. You would too, if you spent the cold... Feb 17, 2016 — Sometimes, Lis Barsuglia-Madsen and her ...