Kajarova weaves a traditional woollen rug in the village of Kosalari, Georgia. Photo: IRAKLI GEDENIDZE/Reuters
Since Zemfira Kajarova arrived in the hill village of Kosalari in southern Georgia as a newlywed almost 50 years ago, she has devoted herself to weaving the village’s distinctive Persian-style woollen carpets.
The 65-year-old grandmother devotes hours each day to the painstaking work, sitting at the decades-old wooden loom in her living room, threading woollen yarn into thousands of individual knots.
