For 35 years, Hikmet Sirlak has been selling kilim in Istanbul and finds joy in the masterpieces created by nomadic weavers in the interior areas of Anatolia A carpet shop in Istanbul’s historic Grand ...

“Acele iŞe Şeytan karıŞır.” English equivalent: Haste makes waste. Meaning: If you hurry your work it will turn out wrong. One of the top places on my travel bucket list got checked off this year — I ...

Getting the Turkish carpet of your dreams at a price you can afford can take a little work, but it’s well worth doing your homework. If you’re certain you’d like to leave Turkey without a carpet, the ...

It can take nearly a year to hand-weave a traditional Turkish carpet, which can often cost thousands of dollars. But now, because of Turkey's stalling economy and the COVID-19 pandemic, an industry ...