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 speaking, a bed of foundation material ...

local rug making had largely died out, with only a handful of older women in remote villages ­keeping the craft alive. Nowadays, the carpet weaving women are not only sustaining a local ...

Since Zemfira Kajarova arrived in the hill village of Kosalari in southern Georgia as a newlywed almost 50 years ago, she has devoted herself to weaving ... Persian rugs, the Borchalo carpets ...