while kath and i were in kusadasi turkey, i picked up a kayseri carpet. kayseri is a region in central turkey. the carpet that i bought was a 6x9 wool on wool with a beautiful blended medallion pattern. i was super nervous about bringing it back into the states, because i had to go through customs and pay duty on it. i decided to bring it home with me instead of shipping it. anyway, i just love it and now i think i might be addicted to these types of carpets...not so good for my wallet. this one is semi-old and the carpet man, hakan from Design Carpet Gallery http://www.designcarpetgallery.com. hakan said the carpet was around 40 years old, putting it on the younger side of semi-old, but still in the vicinity. it was really unusual because it had very light sage green and muted blue in the pattern -- which we could hardly find anywhere!
before we visited, i had some some preliminary research on the types of carpets and the regions - but we got a fantastic education at the grand bazaar in istanbul. we used istanbul as our test drive. we heard from several people that buying in kusadasi was better b/c it was smaller and easier to diget. we were also told that it was somewhat less espensive than istanbul. i was really glad that we did our research in istanbul...we must have visited 5 or 6 different shops.
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