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t is hard to believe that for more than 2,500 years the nomadic women of the remote Tien Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan have been making beautiful wool felt rugs known as shyrdaks to line their people’s tents. Following a trip to Kyrgystan in 1996, Tim Moock brought a few back to London to

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