The quintessential afghan carpet of the past fifty years is a wool on wool product with a repeated octagonal figure often inaccurately called.
Afghan war carpets.
The war rug pashto.
In 2008 2013 and 2014 afghan rug won international awards which is held every year in hamburg germany.
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The majority of afghan carpets are named after their area of foundation or through the name of the ethnic group who weaves them.
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At least a million afghans including hundreds of thousands of rug weavers fled afghanistan during its war with the soviet union and subsequent civil war settling especially in pakistan and iran.
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Afghan rugs are one of the ancient oriental rugs conventionally manufactured in the afghanistan.
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These carpets are testimony to the wide ethical aesthetic and superior skills of the artists.
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فرش جنگی farš jangi tradition of afghanistan has its origins in the decade of soviet occupation of afghanistan from 1979 and has continued through the subsequent military political and social conflicts.
An afghan rug or afghan carpet is a type of handwoven floor covering textile traditionally made in afghanistan.
The afghan rugs are mostly assembled in northern and western afghanistan by various ethnic.
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Many of the afghan rugs are also woven by afghan refugees who reside in pakistan.
Afghan rug makers began incorporating the apparatus of war into their designs almost immediately after the soviet union invaded their country.