carpet loom

FBMI has also flown down two Afghan weavers to give live demonstrations of their art during the exhibition, daily from 4pm to midnight, and also guide visitors who want to try their hand at weaving on the traditional Afghan carpet loom.

"At the exhibition, I demonstrated to visitors how to tie a knot on the carpet loom. It's a very delicate and time-consuming work to weave a carpet.

Around 400 people of this area are working as carpet weavers now," said Abu Taher, a carpet loom owner.

One of the methods through which extortion and exploitation is unleashed is the installation of carpet loom or khaddi.

The festival weekend was capped off with a Rugmark-sponsored rug raffle that raised more than $7,500 for Rugmark programs, including carpet loom monitoring, rescuing and rehabilitating child laborers, and building market demand for child-labor-free rugs.

Hamida carefully lines up colored wool thread and taps it down with a metal tool on a carpet loom at the orphanage.

"The pupils asked some really good questions and I told them about children I met in a carpet loom and youngsters who live and beg on the railways," said Kirsten.

That was the year the steam-powered carpet loom was created by Erastus Bringham Bigelow.

In the mid 1990s, he raided many carpet looms in eastern India that hired child laborers and exported carpets abroad.