Author Archives: Kevin

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.

Self Reflexive You Tube Video

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Thanks, again, John

Contemporary Photos of ISAF in Afghanistan

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British paratroopers Private Danny Berk, right, and Corporal Scott Evens move through a hole blown in a compound wall by a grenade, Saturday Aug. 31, 2008, while protecting a convoy. The convoy consisted of over 100 vehicles in total, some carrying equipment and a new turbine for the power station at the Kajaki Dam. It passed through Taliban positions which were hit with artillery, mortars, Apache Attack helicopters firing rockets and Hellfire missiles, and fast jets dropping precision guided bombs, which resulted in an estimated 250 Taliban casualties. (AP Photo/Sgt. Anthony Boocock, MOD ho)

Thanks John

Another Shahyad Square Rug

Thanks AJ

Earlier post about similar Mashadi pictorial rugs.

BoingBoing Post on JFK Rug

Yesterday, David Pescovitz posted a link on BoingBoing to a John F. Kennedy Rug similar to this one:

Earlier Warrug.com post about Kennedy rugs

Indy Video Featuring Kevin Sudeith at the Brooklyn Flea

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Last spring Indy Video visited me at the Brooklyn Flea on Lafayette and Vanderbilt in Fort Greene, and they produced this very informative video about war rugs. It is well shot, edited, and produced. It will air in NYC on Tuesday, 9/16 at 8:30 PM on channel 67, Thursday, 9/25 at 9 PM on channel 34, and Wednesday, 10/8 at 3:30 PM on channel 34.

World Trade Center Rugs Discussed on PRI’s The World

Yesterday while listening to WNYC, my local NPR station, I heard an interesting story about about Afghanistan seven years after September 11, 2001. The story features an Afghan describing a World Trade Center Rug available on Chicken Street in Kabul.

-image from theworld.org

Here are some 9-11 Rugs with and without flag banners.

Iron Age Italian Petroglyph of Loom

The rock art in Val Camonica features many war scenes as well.

Canada’s Textile Museum War Rug Show

A highpoint of my interest in war rugs was attending the opening of Max Allen’s collection of war rugs at Canada’s Textile Museum. Max and everyone at the Textile Museum have developed an excellent war rug database. It has structural data, very good descriptions, and excellent photographs. Bravo!

Toronto is a beautiful and interesting town. I visited a well styled and eclectic independent bookstore called The Monkey’s Paw.

Commencing our tour, Max commended this rug as best of all:

The contenders for my favorite are:

This, truly gorgeous rug, is most historically important:

I talked to Tim and Max about my theory of the “Feedback Loop” specifically regarding this rug:

this group of rugs:

and these Mas’ud rugs:

Max’s guided Tim and me through the galleries. His analysis was animated and very well informed. Succinctly, Max focused on our lack of specific answers to four questions: Who made the rugs? Where were they made? When were they made? What do they mean?