Morocco at RainTree
Welcome to Arastan
Arastan was an online store that curated rare and handpicked treasures from exotic bazaars along the ancient silk route. Unfortunately we ceased trading in early 2014.
You can read about the reasons for closure.
You can still browse some of the products we used to have via the category links above, although none of these are available for purchase.
Relive our travels and stories by browsing our articles and archives from the menus below.
Browse all our articles
- ▼Creating Arastan (42)
- Looking Empty
- The End of the Arastan Journey
- Is a Hand-tufted Rug for Me?
- Jaipur Rugs: A Remarkable Social Enterprise
- Win a Carpet!
- Growing Arastan
- Arastan at Good Earth in Mumbai
- Myth and Design, as presented by Thomas Cole at Arastan
- Arastan is hiring!
- Reflections on 2012 - The Negatives!
- Reflections on 2012
- Charity Christmas Decorations from ASHA
- Christmas Decorations Galore!
- The Silk Route - India Today Home
- Arastan Gift Cards
- Kaivalam to Iran: Antique Suzanis and Other Hand-crafted Treasures
- Pragati for Arastan
- No Zaakpay, Burma or Rogues - but some Contemporary Rugs
- Next Stop Burma (Myanmar)
- Zaakpay, Angels (the investor kind) and Rogues!
- Our first Photo Shoot and The Bactrian Hoard
- You Wouldn't Want to be Nisha Right Now!
- Mumbai, you are Incredible!
- Treasures of the Silk Route - Exhibition at Artisans', Kala Ghoda, Mumbai
- Strange things happen sometimes…
- Next stop Morocco!
- Never forget the e-sugam!
- Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for 2012
- Rattling Bones
- OWC Bazaar, Ahaan and Baale Mane
- RainTree, Thailand and Karthik
- Rediscovering the Silk Road
- Arastan Exhibition at Raintree
- A Day to Remember!
- More Postal Woes
- And They Call it "Speed"post...?
- Getting Closer with Brand Identity...
- More Carpets Arrive...
- Getting Started with Branding
- The First Carpet Sale!
- A Bit About Nisha…
- Arastan is Born…
- ►Craft Heritage (18)
- ►Afghanistan (1)
- ►Caucasus (7)
- ►India (8)
- ►Iran (1)
- ►Morocco (11)
- ►Thailand (2)
- ►Turkey (11)
- ►Turkmenistan (1)
- ►Uzbekistan (34)
- ►Events (12)
- ▼Creating Arastan (42)
Browse our archives
- ► 2014
- ► 2013
- ▼ 2012
- ► December
- ► November
- ► October
- The Silk Route - India Today Home
- Banarasi Brocade, Mirzapur Carpets, Fantastic Samosas and some Soul-searching (Part I)
- Arastan Gift Cards
- Festive Carpet Offer
- Alisher Nazirov (Master Ceramist from Rishtan)
- Rustam Usmanov (Master Ceramist from Rishtan)
- Kaivalam to Iran: Antique Suzanis and Other Hand-crafted Treasures
- ► September
- ► August
- ► July
- ► June
- ► May
- ► March
- Fergana Valley: Ceramic, Ikat and Shavla
- The Tashkent Zoroastrians
- Bukhara in a Cold Sweat
- In Search of Zoroastrianism
- Happy Women and Mortifying Men
- Mosques, Mausoleums and Me
- Mobbed in Urgut and Stunned by Samarkand
- Beautiful Iroqi Embroidery and the Ak-Saray in Shakhrisabz
- Fabulous Suzanis, Terrible Toilets and Buzkashi
- To the South: Termez
- Exhausted (after orange lemons at Chorsu Bazaar and exquisite miniatures at Abulkasim Medressa)
- ► February
- ▼ January
- ► 2011
- ► December
- ► November
- ► September
- ► August
- ► July
- ► April
- ► March
- ► February
- Day 10: Windchilled in Bukhara!
- Day 9: Three Show Stoppers, 'I am a Disco Dancer' in Shakhrisabz, Rip-off in Bukhara
- Day 8: Ulugbek's Observatory, Registan and a Search Mission for Calligraphy
- Day 7: Mobbed in a Bazaar!
- Day 6: To Samarkand!
- Day 5 - Snow in Tashkent!
- Day 4: In Margilon – the land of Ikats!
- Day 3: Fergana to Rishton
- Day 2: To the Fergana Valley
- Changing Money in Uzbekistan
- Day 1: Valentine's Day in Tashkent!
- Eventful flight to Tashkent, Uzbekistan
- Visiting Master Craftsmen In Moradabad
- Getting Closer with Brand Identity...
- More Carpets Arrive...
- ► January
