Rug Fire

Several days ago I heard that three “lorries” of carpets burnt at Torkham, Afghanistan. A Loya Jirga was held in Torkham today to get to the bottom of the fire. The burnt carpets were reportedly fine quality Turkmen, including silks, from Mazar I’ Sharif bound for Peshawar.

Torkham is 225 km from Kabul and 55 km from Peshawar


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About Kevin

Kevin Sudeith is an artist and the creator and curator of the war rug collection seen on warrug.com. Beginning as (and remaining) a collector, he began selling war rugs to learn as much as possible about the rugs. Later he sold what he calls "regular rugs" to better study rugs and their historical origins. Sudeith learned how war rugs related to traditional Afghan tribal and workshop rugs as well as the broader Turkmen and Persian rug traditions.