Between 1971 and 1979 he set up the One Hotel with his friend and business partner Gholam Dastaghir in Kabul as a kind of artistic commune and created large colourful embroideries, the most famous of these were the Mappa, world maps in which each country features the design of its national flag. In 1971, Boetti commissioned women at an embroidery school in Kabul to embroider his first map. He initially intended to make only one but went on to commission roughly 150 of them in his lifetime, with no two possessing exactly the same dimensions.
Between 1971 and 1979, he established the One Hotel alongside his friend and business partner Gholam Dastaghir in Kabul as an artistic commune and produced large colorful embroideries, with the most renowned being the Mappa, a world map featuring each country's national flag design. In 1971, Boetti asked women at an embroidery school in Kabul to create his first map. Initially intending to make just one, he eventually commissioned around 150 of them throughout his lifetime, ensuring no two were identical.