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| Graham Gower's highly informative site has gone offline, but he has given a collection of war rugs to the British Museum. |
| Nigel Lendon's site about war rugs, which has fallen into disarray. link Historically, the president and staff of warrug.com read and contributed regularly. |
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discussion about interest, virtue and value, or lack thereof,
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Luke Powell's photos of Afghanistan and Pakistan and excellent and poignant, but in 2019 I cannot find a good link to them.
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| Sadly, this informative link is dead: https://www.rugreview.com/stuf/aksi1.htm, An
Unusual Afghan War Aksi Design, by Charles Lewis, PhD |
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Woven
Icons of War, By Charles Lewis, Ph.D Oct.-DEC 1999
Lemar-Aftaab (sadly dead link)
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Examination
of a Mythical Afghan Rug By Charles Lewis, pH D. Lemar-Aftaab
July - December 2000 (sadly, dead link)
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Article
in Collector Cafe about war rugs (link no longer working)
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This was a great resource in its time, https://www.rugreview.com/stuf/afgwar.htm, Afghan
War Rugs: A Subgroup With Iranian Influence An Exhibition
of a Variant Type by Ron O'Callaghan.
I do not fully agree with Ron's findings, but his work is interesting.
The rugs I have seen, from Afghanistan, with asymmetrical
knots, open right, are the new production of patterns originated
in western Pakistan. The new rugs from around Sherbergan
with yellow fields and maps of only Afghanistan have asymmetrical
knots, open right. This pattern, until the recent repatriation
of Afghans from the camps in Pakistan, was woven around
Peshawar. I propose this knot was learned in the camps and
returned to Afghanistan with the repatriated weavers.
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