"We were clueless," said the owner of this fine, handmade silk rug from Turkey. "Now this rug is the centerpiece of our home." (Photo from Christina Fong.) I love my readers for so many reasons. But ...

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In 2017, 3.4 million tons of rugs and carpet sat in US landfills, 2,500 tons from that year alone. Nearly 74% of all rugs and carpet end up in landfills at the end of their lives, which means that ...

The earthy smell of silk and wool fills a showroom piled waist-high with thousands of hand-woven rugs, some of them centuries old. It is a familiar scent, one that links this Westwood shop to Tehran’s ...

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SYDNEY, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Although Sydney is about as far away from the Silk Road as you can get, one harbourside family's connection to the ancient trading routes has continued for almost 70 years.