Women Weavers A close up of an Afghan woman weaving a
carpet on a vertical loom in
a studio in Kabul. Carpet weaving in Afghanistan is gaining importance as the country seeks to regain normalicy after more than 25 years of conflict. Here we see an interesting shift from traditional Afghan work. The rug is silk pile on cotton. It looks as if the knot count will be 150 to 200 kpsi. This is not very fine for a silk rug but when you you look at the size of the knotys in the picture below it should make a good servicable rug. The big departure is that the women are tying symetrical knots with Tabrizi hooks. The Tabrizi hook or knife is a blade with a long hook on the end. This innovation is imported from Tabriz and it allows weavers to tie 20 to 30 percent faster.
This rug is “AfghanMarkSM” The Afghan Women’s Business Federation (AWBF) has
created the new women’s rights certification
trademark brand called “AfghanMarkSM”
which is a brand label that will be carried on future
exported carpets made by Afghan women who are employed by
the women-owned or women-managed carpet-making businesses
that are members of the Afghan Women’s Business
Federation of Afghanistan. This is a major
humanitarian, educational and business development
breakthrough by Afghan women for Afghan women in the
post-Taliban era of Afghanistan’s history. |
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