ADD: Turkish Patchworks

In YURDAN you can see Turkish Patchwork Rugs and Old Textile Patchwork
rugs.

http://www.yurdan.com/yrdn/departmen...073&catID=5000

In YURDAN you can see Turkish Patchwork Rugs and Old Textile
Patchwork rugs.
http://www.yurdan.com/yrdn/departmen...073&catID=5000

Busy little buggers, aren't you?

They turned up on rec.music.early a few days ago selling Turkish
musical instruments. Unlike here, rme doesn't have a formal ban
on adverts, but most of what they were offering had nothing to do
with any kind of early music, Turkish or otherwise.

I've been to their shop in Istanbul (bang in the middle of the most
touristy area). They're not thieves, but they're no different from
many others, and at least for musical instruments their stock is
nowhere near as good or as sensibly priced as any of Istanbul's
dozens of specialist music shops round the Galata Tower. (See the
odd cumbus-mandolin Marion bought on our last visit, on my cumbus
page - that cost 15 pounds from the Zeynel Abidin factory shop at
the end of the Galata Bridge; compare the Yurdan price).

You do better buying Turkish rugs further east, near where they're
made - the women who make them are more likely to get a fair cut of
the price there, too. There are makers' cooperatives that do "fair
trade" schemes, and god knows something like that is needed in the
shark-infested Oriental-crafts trade.

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