Many vacationers based on Spain’s southern coast avail themselves of the opportunity to take a guided day trip across the Strait of Gibraltar to the northern Moroccan city of Tangier. Shortly… ...

They are works of art on which to tread lightly. The weaving of rugs from wool, cotton and sometimes silk, flourished in the fifteenth century in Persia. The design of the rug can incorporate ...

Revenue from all Persian rug exports has fallen from around a billion dollars a year in 2000, the last time sanctions were lifted, to just over $300 million a year today, he tells Newsweek.

The most expensive Persian rug ever bought was a 17th-century Persian vase-style carpet, which sold at auction in June 2013 in London for $33.8 million.

The US was Iran’s major market for Persian rugs and the sanctions caused total carpet exports to drop by 30 per cent — the ... with American devotees of the Iranian artistry the main buyers.

At one of Shanghai’s luxurious interior decoration exhibitions last year, Cai Shengwei learned — to his undisguised indignance — that a handmade silk rug made in Kashmir sold for more than 100,000 ...

A well-placed Oriental rug, that is one hand-knotted from Asia, can be the soul of a room. Which is why many designers suggest that, when decorating a room, you start AT HOME WITH MARNI JAMESON ...

Although prices have soared by up to 150 percent compared with last year, “Iranians are the biggest buyers of Persian carpets,” said Abolfazl Ghanbari, CEO and owner of the Dubai-based family ...