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Turquoise Mountain Arts

Turquoise Mountain Arts is the trading arm of the Turquoise Mountain, an organisation working on the economic, social and cultural regeneration of a precinct in Kabul’s old city and running Afghanistan’s only Centre of Traditional Afghan Arts and Architecture with schools of ceramics, woodworking and calligraphy. Turquoise Mountain Arts finds markets for Afghan crafts, creating economic incentives to ensure their survival. It provides business training to young artisans, preparing them to succeed both as artists and entrepreneurs, and to existing craft businesses, helping them to expand and professionalise their operations.

Turquoise Mountain Arts works to bring Afghan crafts to world markets.  It has completed commissions for international property developers, hotels and interior designers, and for embassies, offices, and private buyers in Afghanistan.