"Your Guide to Turkish Style"
“Every now and then turbaned figures would go by, following the wall; and not a single female head was to be seen behind the discreet grills of the women’s appartments, the ‘haremlikes’. A dead city, one might have said.I thought I was perfectly alone; then I experienced a strange feeling, and realised that close to …
Nothing to do with the sea. It is a deformation of Kumer, its inventor. So, as its name does not suggest, this meerschaum is found in the subsoil of Asia Minor. The pipes are made in Eskişehir, 240 km from Ankara. You can see the artisans at work by looking carefully…, the city is very …
A carpet consists of two distinct parts: the chains, or skeletons of the carpet, these are the vertical threads. The wefts, which consolidate everything, are the horizontal threads. Chains and wefts make up the record. In knotted rugs, the knots are tied on the vertical threads and then leveled with scissors. Various kinds: There are …