TEHRAN- Head of Iran's National Carpet Center Mohammad Baqer Aqa Alikhani said Iran is working to find new markets for its hand-woven carpets to boost its export revenues in this industry to one billion dollars.

Speaking to Fars New Agency in Iran's Western city of Kermanshah, Aqa Alikhani reminded that Iran is the leading country in export of hand-woven carpets, and said the Iranian government plans to increase the country's carpet exports to one billion dollars this Iranian year (started on March 20).

TEHRAN - Iran exported over $560 million worth of handmade carpets to 80 countries in the past calendar year, which ended on March 19, the ISNA News Agency reported.

(Reuters) - Business could not get much worse for the Persian carpet dealers who over the past half-century have turned Hamburg's historic red-brick warehouses into an unlikely centre of the global oriental rug trade.

An Iranian official says the Islamic Republic's exports of hand-woven Persian carpets to China multiplied 12 times in the Iranian calendar year of 1389 (ending March 20, 2011) compared to the previous year.

Courtesy of : Press TV

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/192364.html

Bert van Dijk, Shanghai correspondent for Dutch paper Het Financieele Dagblad, tells us about what he saw at the Iran pavilion: "Iran wants to impress visitors with the supposedly high technologies that the country has developed. There is a model of a cloned goat to see, the first self-built satellite, a microscope, drugs against AIDS, a laser harp, and other complex machines

THIS WEEK IN SAN FRANCISCO: ANTIQUE ORIENTAL RUGS, TRIBAL ART SHOWS

San Francisco will host two internationally important art shows this week displaying some of the finest antique oriental rugs and tribal art.

Both shows give seasoned buyers, home decorators, collectors and beginners a first-hand opportunity to view and purchase directly from some of the world’s leading art dealers who will be displaying some of their best pieces because of San Francisco’s important reputation as the nation’s center of collecting textile and ethnographic arts.

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