Florence and her magic carpet ride.....

Iranian and Afghani carpets are very attractive to me!  Tonight we spent nealry 2 hours learning the stories of the carpets of temptation. We searched the errors and originality, the tribal names and the places of origin. We counted and we peered....

The stories of each unique carpet were woven together with desire, the desire to have and remember. 

 This is the one- it is a prayer rug of silk and wool, yet a prayer rug is not meant to have silk within its  weaving. It is not usual- so the tree of life is where he would kneel; the trunk is for the head and hands would be placed on either side of the head- this is silk. She wove using leaves on the tree, circles of life. It is now being given a hanging part so I can put it on my wall when I collect it next week.

This one has images of camels- it is not old but is from Afghani refugees, living closer to a town than had once been possible and the women are incorporating more modern stories into their weaving, maybe losing some of the tribal motifs. And when they are gone? I will have my old carpets of tribal design.

Not my toes!