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Mohammad Iqbal Bakshi displays a Kashmiri hand-knotted silk carpet at a showroom in Srinagar [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]

Shameema and her husband Mohammad Yousaf Dar weave a Kashmiri hand-knotted carpet at their home in Srinagar. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]

Kashmiri artisans weave hand-knotted carpets at a factory in Kashmir. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]

Ahsan Sofi carries a Kashmiri hand-knotted carpet out of a carpet factory in Srinagar. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]

Knife-sharpening stones are used as paperweights for strips of paper with carpet-weaving instructions at a factory in Srinagar. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]

Farooq Ahmed, left, and Mushtaq Ahmed weave a Kashmiri hand-knotted carpet. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]

Colorful silk weaving threads are hung from above a loom at a carpet factory in Srinagar. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]

Shameema and her husband Mohammad Yousaf Dar weave a Kashmiri hand-knotted carpet at their home in Srinagar. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]

Mohammad Iqbal Bakshi, left, and Mohammad Rafiq Shah inspect a Kashmiri hand-knotted silk carpet inside a showroom in Srinagar. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]

Professional carpet cleaners Waseem Ahmed Mir, left, and Abid Ahmed wash Kashmiri hand-knotted carpets at a workshop. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]

Ishfaq Ahmad Mir, left, and Altaf Ahmed shear Kashmiri hand-knotted carpets to remove protruding fibres. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]

Kashmiri hand-knotted carpets are displayed at a showroom in Srinagar. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]