Second International Carpet Festival, Georgia, June 28 – July 2, 2017

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Notes

1. Furthermore, the villages of the Upper Ksani Gorge (Akhalgori) region have been occupied by Russia since 2008 (Nino Kipshidze, email correspondence with authors, September 2017).

2. I. Koshoridze (2016) Georgian Rug (catalog of the First International Rug Festival), Tbilisi: Georgian State Museum of Folk and Applied Arts.

3. reWoven: https://www.rewoven.net (accessed 01.08.17).

All photographs (except Figure 1) taken at The Second International Carpet Festival, Alkhatsikhe, Georgia by the authors, reproduced with their permission and with permission of the organizers and participants as appropriate, © Victoria Mitchell and Pennina Barnett.

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Pennina Barnett

REVIEWED BY PENNINA BARNETT AND VICTORIA MITCHELL

Pennina Barnett is a freelance writer on visual culture and a Founding Co-Editor of Textile, Cloth and Culture.

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Victoria Mitchell

Victoria Mitchell is a Research Fellow at Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, UK.

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