Millennials, you may have gathered, are in nesting mode. They’re carefully decorating their homes, but rather than using the brands their parents relied on, they’re turning to a new wave of ...

A Turkish carpet could be the ultimate souvenir of your trip to Istanbul. Travel Ink / Alamy If you want to buy a Turkish carpet, it’s worth knowing a bit about what you’re looking for--if only to ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Sip your tea and listen. “You are looking at a handmade, natural-dyed kilim from eastern Anatolia,” says Suleyman Ozcan, letting the thin, flat-woven rug slowly drop to the floor ...

“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 ...

One of the peculiar customs in the Americana field is the inclusion of Oriental carpets in sales of Colonial furniture, ceramics and silver. Oriental carpets and American antiques go together like ...

A Turkish carpet in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art -- acquired as a circa-1600 work but disparaged by a New York rug dealer as a much later reproduction -- has emerged from a ...

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 ...

Handmade carpets woven by women in Turkey's eastern Igdir province are adorning homes in Japan. In a joint project by the Turkish Employment Agency and Igdir University, Turkish carpets were exported ...