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Comfortable leather sofas and armchairs stand on a gigantic tawny Afghan carpet in the huge main hall. Long, simple tables and benches offer visitors the chance to sit and read, or eat light meals and snacks. (Suite101.com)
Foreign hopesEntrepreneurial Afghan traders look further afield for new markets Dec 16, 2007
Khal Mohammad is well known in the Afghan carpet industry and has survived in the business for nearly three decades amid a backdrop of unending war ... "I want to show the Afghan carpets to the rest of the world and demonstrate our skills so we can find possibilities for trade. For every carpet that is bought, one Afghan family stays alive," he says, stroking his silky white beard ... Some 150,000 Afghan carpets are made each month. (BBC News -- South Asia)
When a rug covers more than the floor Sep 14, 2007
Started in February, the label AfghanMark represents a consortium of independent, privately held Afghan carpet companies employing 26,000 weavers ... Alan Meiselman, president of Saxony Carpet in New York, where Clark bought his rug, said that without middlemen to pay, he was able to bring top-quality Afghan carpets into his showroom for about 25 percent less and pass the savings along to his clients. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
