Designed in Iraq

Color — Traditional Kurdish Rugs

Kurdish rugs are rugs woven by the Kurdish people in the Middle East, predominantly the larger Kurdistan region including the Eastern part of Turkey near the Taurus Mountains, Northern Iraq, southernmost Caucasus, Armenia, and North-Western Iran.

Handmade carpet weaving is an ancient heritage craft that characterizes the cities and villages of Iraq from north to south.

In the Kurdish hand-made carpets, the pieces of which were hand-woven by the hands of Kurdish women and weaved with great accuracy in shapes, drawings, decorations and colors from the environment of the place, the carpets are made of sheep’s wool and goat hair and are colored and dyed with natural dyes such as dyes extracted from red anemones or yellow chamomile flowers or flowers that are decorates the lands and spreads during the spring in the valleys and mountains of Kurdistan

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The project “Cultural and Creative Industries” is implemented by the GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut. It improves employment and income opportunities for creative professionals in six partner countries; Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Kenya, Senegal, and South Africa and operates mainly in the music, fashion, design and animation sectors. In addition to promoting the development of entrepreneurial, digital, creative and technical skills through training programmes, the project aims to strengthen the framework conditions and the ecosystem of the cultural and creative industries.