`Berber rugs have all the desert colors. Think Santa Fe and you have it!” says James F. Jereb, archeologist turned tour director and dealer in rare treasures. Jereb`s collection of Berber tribal ...

Tribal carpets are usually woven with simple, bold designs, using geometric forms and a warm color palette. Village rugs tend to have more elaborate geometric/floral designs, while Classical rugs are ...

Oriental rugs - including Persian rugs - are selling fast as people spend less on travel, say Milwaukee-area dealers and interior designers.

War iconography first appeared in these tribal rugs in 1980, shortly after the Soviets began bombing Afghan villages. Mohammad Raheem, an Afghan refugee and a rug producer and dealer in the city ...

Ferrey, a teacher’s aide in the Mahtomedi school district, has about 40 Afghan tribal war rugs that depict everything from arrowheads to AK-47s. They make up a small part of her collection of ...

The Navajo hold a giant place in the annals of Native American arts, and deservedly so. Around the time that Columbus discovered America, the Navajo were settling in what would become the southwestern ...

2008 Best Rugs Yayla Tribal Rugs Cambridge The more time spent scouring the mazelike piles of carpets inside Yayla, the more treasures are unearthed.

Check out Peter Pap's appraisal of a Baluch Balisht tribal rug, ca. 1900, from Harrisburg, Hour 3.

Nomadic or tribal rugs (along with bags, tents and other sheep's wool textiles) are made throughout Central Asia by numerous ethnic groups, including the Turkmen tribes.

TEHRAN – James Opie’s “Tribal Rugs of Southern Persia” has recently been published in Persian. Using various images and drawings in his book, Opie shows a series of rugs that exhibit various degrees ...