Wrentham Antiques Marketplace has been exhibiting hand-woven carpets for years but now they are adding new styles with a non-profit twist. For centuries rug weaving has been more than a craft in Tibet. It has been part of the culture. Now these peoples are turning carpet weaving into self-sufficiency by joining non-profit cooperatives that plow profits back into the community in the form of school building, reforestation, and arts projects. As they struggle for economic progress, they achieve something just as important to them: cultural survival.
They weave their own traditional designs with their tribal emblems and folkloric motifs. One of the most popular designs among Tibetan rugs is Gaon Naksha, or "Village Life" which is basically a look out the weaver's window through the weaver's eyes - a work of art that brings immediate contact with some of the most remote places and exotic cultures on earth. Our Gaon Nakshas are produced by Tibetans exiled in Nepal, who have built a Tibetan-language elementary school and cultural center with rug proceeds. They expanded the school with an organic greenhouse, launched a reforestation project inside Tibet (where some mountainsides have been clear-cut for lumber). With a focus on women's initiatives, the rug proceeds supported the first-ever collection of contemporary Tibetan women’s' writing and the first-ever women's magazine for Tibetan women in Tibetan language.
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