Hikmet sources carpets and kilims – flatweave rugs – from small traders around Turkey, and mostly sells wool pieces from the 1960s and 1970s from the country’s south-west. “They are not ...

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 ...

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