case study JAIPUR, INDIA--Having implemented various IT tools including ERP, CRM, barcodes and Autotex, Jaipur Rugs has not only made carpet-weaving a more efficient business but also improved the ...

Many Iranian cities and regions enjoy a global reputation in carpet weaving, and the carpet weavers of Fars province, located in the southwest of Iran, are among the most prominent. The remarkable ...

“During excavations held in Qaitarieh hill, northern Tehran, we found carpet weaving tools that are very old. Available evidence reveals there are nearly 3,500 years of carpet weaving around Tehran ...

PRAGUE, September 4, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- An artisan lightly taps her wooden mallet to tamp down another row of just-completed, hand-tied knots. To her rhythm, a long, richly red carpet decorated with ...

Wafa, dressed in a clinical white coat and framed by myriad bottles and jars, is explaining the painstaking method of squeezing out argan oil. The technique is time-honoured in Morocco, and in this ...

On October 1, 1894, one of the largest Indian carpets on record arrived in Chippenham, bound for the Waterloo Gallery in Windsor Castle. The Clerk of Accounts, A.G. Seymour, recorded in his diary: “On ...

Kashmiri artisans breathed a sigh of relief as the Centre provided the geographical identification tag to the famed hand-knotted Kashmiri carpets. The announcement was seen as a big step towards ...

An ancient symbolic code lies behind the intricate patterns of Kashmir's traditional handwoven carpets and rugs. Called talim, the code has been used for hundreds of years to design carpets and convey ...

Stable two-dimensional networks of organic molecules are important components in various nanotechnology processes. However, producing these networks, which are only one atom thick, in high quality and ...