From the age of eight, and following in the footsteps of his father, Mohammad Rafiq Sofi has been weaving carpets using talim designs. "It took me five years to learn how to weave properly," says ...
It can take nearly a year to hand-weave a traditional Turkish carpet, which can often cost thousands of dollars. But now, because of Turkey's stalling economy and the COVID-19 pandemic ...
The difference between Fars carpets, especially gabbeh, and other carpets, which make it difficult to weave is that Fars carpets' looms are placed on the ground. Fars carpets are horizontal.