Sebastian Ghandchi offers the lowdown Hertiage revised There was a time when handwoven carpets were synonymous with Persian carpets. But with the emergence of design-carpets made in Nepal, and to a lesser extent India and Turkey, they lost much ground after the Pahlavi-period weavings. Persian carpet producers were obsessed with knot counts and rigid ‘traditional’ […]

All his life, Iranian Mohammad Ashkiyoun has sold Persian carpets. And now? Caught between sanctions, war, and blocked supply routes, he is struggling to keep both his family and his business together.By Sebastian Astner and Anna Lea Jakobs, Düsseldorf Yesterday, Mohammad Ashkiyoun had already sent an SMS to his brother. Now his phone vibrates; he […]