REF.: R28290
Price range: | €500,00 - €1.000,00 |
Description: | War rug |
Dimensions: | L190xB108 |
Origin: | Central Asia, Afghanistan |
Period: | recent |
Medium: | pile: wool / warp and weft: wool |
Technique: | Hand knotted |
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Decades of war and military presence have influenced daily life in Afghanistan. Many weavers introduced designs of what had become part of the landscape: weapons, rockets, military trucks, tanks, planes, and helicopters as a new decorative element in their carpets. Sometimes they were obvious as a main subject, sometimes discreetly hidden in the pattern. Was it a therapy to exorcise traumas?