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If you are fed up with heavy bath towels, which don’t dry up once wet and which stink after a time, you are at the right place. Peshtemal, also known as Turkish towel, is an important part of...
February 25 2013
Handmade Turkish Lace Oya Earrings

Oya, which is also known as Turkish Lace, is one of the most elegant and rare categories of Anatolian handicrafts. Turkish lace is entirely hand-made by embroidering silk and thread with a deli...
August 11 2011
The Art of Ebru

Ebru mean cloud in Persian and indeed some marbled papers resemble clouds and waves in form. This art was employed in decorating books and manuscripts. First a basin, the size ot the pa...
July 08 2011
History of Handwoven Kilim Rugs

The first sample of the kilim rug (AKA Turkish rug, oriental rug or tribal rug) weaving art is the Pazarik rug, found in the Iskit tombs of the 5th and 6th centuries BC. The remnants of rugs found ...
July 04 2011
History of Iznik Tile and Pottery

The conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmet the Conqueror (1451-1481), was one of the turning points of history. The Ottoman state was transformed into an empire. It was also a very important ...
June 05 2011
Iznik Pottery

Iznik today is a small typical Turkish town, which lies some sixty miles South-East from Istanbul, across the Bosporus. In earlier times it was an important Byzantine town, the ancient Nicaea, with...
June 05 2011

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