Thursday, January 8, 2009

How to Make a Turkish Carpet

This is the Gallery Anatolia in Goreme. They dye their own wool and spin their own silk for making new carpets and repairing old ones.




Here Atila is explaining how silk thread is spun from thousands of silk worm cocoons. 






This carpet is being knotted with wool.


This carpet is being woven with wool.



This is the carpet show room. Atila was disappointed when I didn't buy a carpet, especially after showing me around and letting me take all these pictures.

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