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Turkic World
The Turkic world stretches across dozens of nations and three thousand years of history. We begin with six — Turkey, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan. We are not finished.
Finest silk dyed with natural roots.
Collections from Turkic World
By motif
Buta
The almond-flame — the motif at the base of the Bakı type, and the first shape a master learns to carve.
15 pieces
SHOP →Çələng
The wreath — flower heads closed into a ring at the heart of the cloth.
4 pieces
SHOP →Şəmsə
The sun medallion — the ancient solar sign pressed at the centre of the kelaghayi.
3 pieces
SHOP →By colour
Göy
The blues — counted among the healing colours, worn to turn the eye away.
11 pieces
SHOP →Al
The reds — al is the bride's colour, the scarf a mother-in-law gives, that veils the face and swaddles a first child.
9 pieces
SHOP →Yaşıl
The greens — one of the seven colours of the yeddi rəng, the palette a master must command.
6 pieces
SHOP →Bənövşə
The violets — alvan, the living colour a young woman is expected to wear.
5 pieces
SHOP →Qızıl
The golds — onion skin and ochre, the tones the earth gives up most readily.
4 pieces
SHOP →Concept piece
Tokat Beşlisi
by Hafize Kaya · Turkey
Concept piece
View Profile →Türkmen Gülü
by Ogulgerek Annayeva · Turkmenistan
Concept piece
View Profile →Tian Şan
by Ainur Mamytova · Kyrgyzstan
Concept piece
View Profile →Shyrdak
by Aizat Bekova · Kazakhstan
Concept piece
View Profile →Registan
by Dilnoza Yusupova · Uzbekistan
Concept piece
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Turkey
Hafize Kaya
Hafize Kaya is a third-generation yazma master from Tokat — a city that held a royal monopoly on block-printed textiles during the Ottoman p…
Azerbaijan
Narmin Hasanova
A fourth-generation kelaghayi artisan from Şeki, Narmin Hasanova is one of the last masters of Azerbaijan’s UNESCO-recognized silk dyeing tr…
Uzbekistan
Dilnoza Yusupova
Born in the shadow of Samarkand’s Registan, Dilnoza Yusupova creates designs that echo the mathematical perfection of Islamic geometric tile…
Kazakhstan
Aizat Bekova
Aizat Bekova is an Almaty-based artist whose designs bridge the nomadic traditions of the Kazakh steppe with a contemporary minimalist sensi…
Kyrgyzstan
Ainur Mamytova
From the Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan, Ainur Mamytova is a master of shyrdak — the traditional felt carpet art of the Kyrgyz people. Re…
Turkmenistan
Ogulgerek Annayeva
Ogulgerek Annayeva comes from a family of Turkmen carpet weavers whose patterns have been passed down through generations of women. The sacr…
Hafize Kaya
Hafize Kaya is a third-generation yazma master from Tokat — a city that held a royal monopoly on block-printed textiles during the Ottoman period. She learned to carve linden-wood blocks from her grandmother, who learned from hers. The technique has not changed in six hundred years: carved wood, natural dye, silk. Her hands carry the memory of every pattern she has ever pressed.