The Emergence of a Kurdish Rug Type by William Eagleton Oriental Rug Review, Vol. 9, No. 5 For most of us a rug type exists only after it has reached international markets and has been seen and classified by collectors and scholars. Until then rugs and other weavings can be present in considerable numbers in their natural habitats without attracting the attention of the outside world. This was ...

Rahbar Jalal Mamash in memoriam Rahbar Jalal Hamad Rasul of the Mamash family, the herald of the Kurdish culture , was born in Koy Senjek, South Kurdistan year 1953. He had studied miniature painting in Fine Arts school in Bagdad, and continued his arts studies in Likovni Ometnosti Skopje school in Jugoslavia and Surikov's Art Institute in Soviet Union. At 1980's Rehber moved to Finland where ...