Carpet

Iran's famed carpet exports have ceased to the U.S. since Washington slapped Tehran with new sanctions, the country's handmade carpet-weavers' union said on Nov. 18.

Turkey targets $500 million of carpet export to the U.S. by the end of 2018, a regional carpet export association head said on Nov. 5.

Local carpet producers add color to the landscape of a town in the southern Turkish province of Antalya every summer. Click through for the story in photos...

It's an early summer evening at Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, the maze-like warren of alleyways crammed with shops that has been the city's trading hub for over half a millennium. But this time, there are no traders' voices beckoning to travelers to come and haggle over the price of a carpet. Nor is the air filled with the pungent whiff of oriental spices being offered to passers-by.

A Turkish entrepreneur collects old Anatolian rugs, kilims and many other authentic pieces he finds in villages across Turkey, restores them and sells them to customers in the US, Europe and Far East

The last weaver in Kastamonu unveils traditional handmade rugs

BELGRADE - Only a blind man can believe the Balkan problems have been put an end to, says Serbian FM Ivica Dacic.

Conflicts in the region will go on for as long as the causes of those problems remain - if you sweep all problems under the carpet, you will stumble on the carpet, Dacic said on a Happy TV talk show Tuesday.

A velvet wall carpet, which depicts the 12 apostles of Christianity and is estimated to date back to 1,000 years, has been seized in the southern province of Adana after three men attempted to sell it for 3 million Turkish Liras.

The interrogation of the suspects is ongoing.

"Whatever happened, all of it happened to us. Nothing happened to anybody else.

The permanent exhibition "Rugs and Textiles from Central Asia: The Jason Deighton-Sarzetakis Collection" has opened on the second floor in the renovated east wing of the Corfu Museum of Asian Art.