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Attacking a pile of rugs in the Afghan bazaar (the most interesting rug is always on the bottom).
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 We examine each rug individually, and make a huge mess in the process. |
 The "cash bazaar" (this market is cash-and-carry only) in Peshawar, Pakistan. |
 After a few hours you try to figure out what you've spent. |
 Lunch with Issa Khan--head of an Ersari weaving family. |
Shopping for Turkoman jewelry in the Afghan bazaar. |
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Sign in the lobby of the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan: check your guns at the door.
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Kids in the village of Attock, Pakistan. |
Street scene in Quetta, Pakistan. |
A decorated bus in Northwest Province, Pakistan.Weaving Afghan Rugs....
After sorting, there's a little pile of ivory wool, a bigger pile of tan wool, a bigger
pile of grey-brown wool.... |
Before wool can be spun or dyed, it's sorted by color (only ivory wool can be dyed
a light shade). |
Dyeing wool yellow using isparuk (Delphinium sulphureum), a flowering plant. |
Dyeing wool red using the ground-up roots of the madder plant. |
Weaving an Ersari rug on a ground loom. |
Weaving a vegetable-dyed rug from a graph on a vertical loom. |
Washing an Ersari rug after it's been cut off the loom. |
Giving a vegetable-dyed rug a final clipping over a roller. |
Go here for more information about weaving in Afghanistan.
