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Our shop is in Cappadocia (Urgup) located in center of Turkey (350 km East of Ankara). Like other people, I think I’ve understood the beauty of my region once I’ve traveled and lived abroad. I’ve travelled a lot during these years, and lived in France and Ireland, but I recently realized how magical and unique Cappadocia really is.
Cappadocia has an incredible volcanic-created landscape of fairy chimneys, natural stone castles and underground dwellings of ancient civilizations and early Christian hideouts. It is one of those unique places on Earth where nature and humans lived in harmony over the years and left over amazing traces of Civilizations and Culture.
What are the absolute 10 things to do in Cappadocia?
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I want to share with you what I call a “trendy piece of Art” – a.k.a the Silk Suzani rugs!
Suzanis are flat embroidery rugs that comes from Central Asia – Uzbekistan. In this post I will not go through the history of Suzani rugs but if you are interested you can read it here. You [...]
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As you know, we travel frequently across Central Asia, Middle-East and Asia to find the best quality handmade rugs, soumaks and suzanis.
What matters to us is to meet the weavers behind the scene, the people involved in rug making.
This is a short photo gallery from our recent visit to Central Asia.
Here you can see:
How suzanis [...]
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We have just set-up a new Flickr account. Flickr is a great way to share pictures online.
Do we really need one account on Flickr?
We are passionate about handmade carpets and rugs – and through Flickr we feel we can engage and connect with other passionate people.
What will you see in our Flickr account?
We don’t expose [...]
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We have recently launched our new Handmade carpet & textile museum.
The exposed items are all unique in their type, age and quality. We are happy to share this private collection with you. See more details on our website in the section Antique Carpets & Textiles Museum
See and download the full gallery on posterous
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Tags:antique rugs·collection·museum·preserving rugs·rug museum
See and download the full gallery on posterous
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When you want to appreciate a good quality carpet you really need to see all the details of that carpet: the colours, number of knotts, the design, the back of the carpet etc…That’s is why we have decided to take High Definition pictures from different angles for each of our product. Also you will be [...]
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Rugs Made by People NOT Machines
