Navajo weaving has been documented as early as the 1700s. They used upright looms with no moving parts and wool produced by ...

To start the process, a designer would draw up a carpet. A talim expert would then encode that design, and in small sections send it off for weaving. Those chunks of code would be translated for ...

Mohammad Rafiq Sofi using translated talim codes to guide his weaving An ancient symbolic code lies behind the intricate patterns of Kashmir's traditional handwoven carpets and rugs. Called talim ...