Outside a hidden storefront on York Street sits a table, piled with rugs. You’ve probably seen it on your way to the Humanities Quadrangle or Toad’s. Perhaps you linger for a moment as your gaze sets ...

Only five women in Serbia make the striking, colorful, hand-woven "kilim of Pirot" rugs. They believe that their craft will soon be given intangible cultural heritage status by UNESCO. For hundreds of ...

Iranian women work on weaving the largest kilim in the world in Qirokarzin, in the southern Fars province — FARZANEH CHAKHMAGH ZAS Iran announced Monday that weavers in the southern province of Fars ...

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Tehran (AFP) – Iran announced Monday that weavers in the southern province of Fars had produced the world's largest kilim rug, measuring an enormous 105 square metres (more than 1,100 square feet).