Traditional handicrafts such as carpet-weaving are found in rural areas of Arabia.

The region is a famous one for carpet-weaving.

Many labor-intensive industries are tied to tourism such as construction, food distribution and carpet-weaving.

Most lived in rural areas and were engaged in farming and carpet-weaving.

At this time Shusha became the center of the Karabakh carpet-weaving.

Carpet-weaving was mainly done by men, and embroidery by women; members of the same family worked at both trades.

Dawlat Abad is a centre for carpet-weaving in northern Afghanistan.

Weavers were asked to embroider more elaborate designs, aided by their knowledge of carpet-weaving.

Carpet-weaving in Persia dates back to the Bronze Age.

Working all summer and teaching all winter in that dismal little school-house, with no change but home cares and carpet-weaving!

Carpet-weaving is historically a major traditional profession for the majority of Armenian women, including many Armenian families.

There were often large Armenian populations in Islamic areas, some of whom specialized in arts and crafts such as carpet-weaving.

Portadown has a manufacturing sector that has grown beyond its roots in linen production to include carpet-weaving, baking and engineering.

Tijud din had an aversion to music and singing, and earned his livelihood by carpet-weaving.

True to its mission, Fabrica has lovingly reinterpreted the venerable art of carpet-weaving as an imaginative, immersive world.

How did you go about researching and reinventing the worlds of 19th century Delhi - from the descriptions of carpet-weaving to courtly etiquette?

Carpet-weaving is one of the most distinguished manifestations of Persian culture and art, and dates back to ancient Persia.

Under Shah Jahan's reign, Mughal carpet-weaving took on a new aesthetic and entered its classical phase.

He argued that the decline of traditional Iranian industries such as carpet-weaving were the beginning of Western "economic and existential victories over the East."

Armenian carpet-weaving is mentioned by many early sources, and may account for a much larger proportion of East Turkish and Caucasian production than traditionally thought.

The Brussels Loom was introduced into England towards the middle of the eighteenth century marked the beginning of a new era in carpet-weaving.

Today, Panipat is famous as 'The Town of Weavers' because of its fine carpet-weaving and textile industries.

The retrospective will close with "Gabbeh," an ode to the village carpet-weaving industry and rural life in general that will then open commercially on June 25.

After trying his hand in his native town at shoemaking, baking, carpentering, blacksmithing, house-painting and carpet-weaving, he moved in 1816 to Birmingham.

In Turkmen culture, carpet-weaving is a tradition tracing back to nomadic roots; today, the trade is the primary source of sustenance and economic opportunities for the community.