“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 ...

Oghuz Turks in western Turkey have been keeping thousands of years old rug weaving tradition alive with the support of the district governorate. Bayat rug, produced of sheep wool and madder root with ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Before the invention of chemical dyes in the 1850s and the introduction of mechanised weaving in the 1960s, Turkish rugs were made using ...