April 2008 Archive

• Emmett's Oriental Rug Book, Pakistani Rugs

  Pakistani Rugs: Q Mark, Pamir, Hazara Looms

  04.29.08 | Comment?

  This luscious rug was produced by an emerging company called Q Mark in Pakistan, woven by Afghan refugees.

  Q Mark and Pamir have woven rugs for in Pakistan for several years and are just now emerging with good, new productions. Hazara looms have put production on hold due to a migration of weavers back to Afghanistan.
  In […]

• Emmett's Oriental Rug Book, Pakistani Rugs

  Khal Mohammadi Rugs

  04.29.08 | Comment?

  One of my favorite productions from the Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan is called Khal Mohammadi. I am puzzled about where their designs spring from. They are recognizably Turkmen in character, but unlike any Turkmen designs I have seen.

• Emmett's Oriental Rug Book, Pakistani Rugs

  Pakistani Rugs: Art Resources

  04.25.08 | Comment?

  Pakistani Farahan oriental rug by Art Resources. Art Resources treats its wool with respect, never allowing it to be injured.

  Art Resources creates great, old-looking oriental rugs in Pakistan, without distressing them with chemicals. Look for them to become one of the major oriental rug productions of our era.
  Art Resources is one of my favorite […]

• Emmett's Oriental Rug Book, Pakistani Rugs

  Pakistani Rugs: Chris Walter

  04.17.08 | Comment?

  Chris Walter has quietly created one of the very best and largest productions of natural-dyed oriental rugs in the world in three separate businesses.
  In our last post we mentioned that some Westerners take a very active role producing rugs in the Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan. One of the earliest of these special rugmkers was […]

• Emmett's Oriental Rug Book, Pakistani Rugs

  Pakistani Rugs: Afghan Weavers in Pakistan

  04.15.08 | Comment?

  A finely-knotted Pakistani Aryana rug from Yayla tribal rugs.

  Some of the best new oriental rugs are being made in Pakistan by Afghan refugees.
  The path for the rug renaissance in Pakistan was paved by Afghanistan’s tragic civil war and the subsequent flood of Afghan refugees into neighboring Pakistan. More than a million Afghans sought refuge […]