When I first heard the voice message, I played it two more times to be sure I’d heard right. Hakan Zor, the rug merchant my husband and I met six months earlier in Turkey, was in Florida with a large ...

Kathryn Miller is known for being the owner of Knotted, a great local resource to get unique and beautiful restored turkish rugs. All of her rug collections are so remarkable and really can put the ...

The more I learn about hand-knotted rugs, the type we grew up calling “Oriental rugs,” the more complex they become. In my experience, choosing one is the single most difficult home design decision ...

Good thing I was sitting down when my husband, DC, leaned over and asked if we should buy one of the handwoven rugs being flung at us at a rug shop in Kusadasi, Turkey, last October. Floored: Hakan ...

Buying a carpet in Turkey is like going on a blind date with a chaperon. You enter a rug store not knowing whether you'll like what you find. You engage in some social niceties before the dealer ...

I was just in Kusadasi, Turkey, a tourist city on the Aegean Sea that is known for the rich variety of goods in its various bazaars. Shoppers are often beguiled by Turkish vendors offering tea, smiles ...

What would 30 centuries of intrigue, history and tradition look like? Imagine patterns and colors filled with symbolism, folklore, and tribal culture. Imagine exotic treasures passed down from family ...