Washing carpets in Iran, 1960
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The other thing I've been wasting time on this morning is looking at a replacement rug for our living room. We're having to change the furniture and the rug is very much past its best.
There's too much choice!
In The Field – Ep. 61
Off-Grid, In The Field is a series of mini OGP episodes with just one host and The General.
We know everything about art, we just don’t know what we like. Lay down and dye!
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Inspired by an exhibition I went to of #war #carpets weaved in #Afghanistan from the 1970s until today. This one shows the withdrawal of the USSR in 1988/89.
Tuesday 16 July 1963
New York stripper Dior Angel (pictured) insists that she will marry British baronet Sir Charles Musgrave even if “she has to use her father’s shotgun”. Sir Charles advertised for a wife, Dior replied, but Sir Charles said she was not his type.
A child runs between handwoven carpets laid out in the open fields in scorching temperatures, Antalya, #Turkey
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty