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October 15, 2024

Shahsavan Bagface with The Classcial Four Directions Design

Shahsavan Bagface with The Classcial Four Directions Design. Very fine weave (70 warps/10 cm) sumak technique. The archaic four directions pattern is used, with some little […]
October 15, 2024

Shahsavan Bagface with Stylized Animals

Shahsavan bagface with very fine weave (70 warps/10 cm) sumak technique, with silk wefts. Stylized animals and vegetal designs used. Very fine handspun wool and 100% […]
September 23, 2024

Extremely Fine Malatya Sinan Tribal Small Kilim

Extremely fine weave (60 warps/10 cm)  MAlatya Sinanlı Trinal kilim. All very good quality natural dyes, full of authenticity. Indigo, cochineal, weld, and madder dyes used. […]
September 23, 2024

Very Fine Cental Anatolian Aksaray Carpet With Extremely Shiny Wool

Very finely woven Aksaray carpet with Natural dyes and shiny pile. Extremely fine weave and supple structure. Classical Central Anatolian type of medallion with stylized dragon-monster […]
September 23, 2024

Anatolian Kurdish Gabbeh Style Small Carpet From Malatya

Small prayer-size carpet with exquisite colors and gradient pattern passages. Madder, Cochineal, reds, madder purple, light and dark indigo, Coral and golden yellows, duck-head greens used. […]
September 23, 2024

Konya Kilim With Elibelinde Pattern

Classical Konya Area Kilim woven with 100% natural wool and very high quality 100 % Natural dyes staying loyal to the antique kilim hues of Anatolia. […]
November 10, 2021
Nallihan plains, Ankara Turkey

Travelling To Turkey After The Pandemic, Impressions Of An 85 Years Old German Ethnologist

Prof. Dr. Peter Thiele is a very well-known academician, traveler, ethnologist, and lecturer. He has given lectures in many universities in Germany and Japan and was […]
November 21, 2020
Star UShak carpet, 17th century, Western Anatolia

Handwoven Carpets of Turkey -3 Western Anatolia

Western Anatolia is a very special place in Turkey, which combines the Hellenistic culture and the Turkmen culture on the same ground. The area is relatively […]
November 19, 2020
Antique Konya Karacadağ-Işıklar carpet, Early 19th century, Central Anatolia

Handwoven Carpets of Turkey – 2 Central Anatolia

Central Anatolia is another cultural and geographic area in which many centers of pile carpet weaving are accumulated. The area inhabited for approximately 10 millenniums had […]
November 19, 2020
Trbal carpet belonging to Reshwan Kurds, 19th century, Eastern Anatolia

Handwoven Carpets of Turkey -1 Eastern Anatolia

Eastern Anatolia has specific geography very suitable to feed sheep and goats and make transhumance. The high altitude of the pastures and the summer rains and […]
November 19, 2020
Women comb the wool Artvin, North-Eastern Turkey

Fiber Culture, The Nomad Way to Use Wool, Goat Hair and Other Fibers in Weavings

The nomads in Turkey have based their culture and traditions mostly on animal husbandry and textile production. The nomadic textiles are as famous as the sheep […]
November 18, 2020
Anatolian Turkmen Black tent view from the outside

Different types of Nomadic Tents in Turkey

Nomads in Turkey used different types of tribal tents according to their ethnicity, economic factors, and historical events. In recent years, changing life conditions have pushed […]