AfghanMade carpet Design

Afghan rug designs have remained largely unchanged since the 19th century, yet several years of war and isolation have remaining Afghans utterly lacking some sort of facilities to produce them - not forgetting totally regarding touch with changing market trends.

AfghanMade rugs was set up in 2006 by the United states Task energy for Business Stability Operations to assist develop the nation's native sectors and it is slowly bringing the united states up to date with modern production practices. This season representatives from AfghanMade rugs travelled over with a portfolio of modern styles and a delegation of European and US carpet companies for a project that culminates this week.

The task challenged regional craftsmen to replicate lines, shapes and principles completely new for them. The style so appealed to us whenever AfghanMade rugs approached Wallpaper* to be an element of the event showcasing the outcomes, presented at Designjunction this week within the the London Design Festival, we hopped during the chance.

The exhibition unveils the finest carpets to emerge from Afghan looms. Apart from curating and designing the sculptural wooden screen types, Wallpaper* in addition commissioned a rug of your very own, working with Christopher Farr together with Danish-Italian design duo GamFratesi. The collaborative piece, labeled as 'Platonism' and influenced by Plato's insistence from the presence of abstract objects, would be shown alongside two rugs produced when it comes to event underneath the Christopher Farr label.

Other works consist of a standard design by Giulio Iacchetti for Nodus; an ABC Italia design by Giacomo Barzaghi; a Martí Guixé design for Nanimarquina; and Fort Street Studio's collaborations with Brad Davis and Janis Provisor.

At the same time AfghanMade Carpets has supplied two washing facilities for carpetmakers in Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif and also the Afghan Ministry of Commerce and Industry is working to establish a substance factory in Kabul to deliver manufacturers with new ingredients. The aim is to let the country to be separate in all phases of production and export.