Weaving Memories: A Project for Transformation Ghent University
This project aims to study and problematize the systematic marginalization and exploitation of the weavers in the regime of production and trade of Persian handmade carpets. Most weavers have been traditionally invisible and low-income agents, alienated from the craft they practice and its potential scope of growth. The critical argument is that if handmade carpets continue to be massively produced, at a relatively affordable price, it is due ...