Furnishings

The oldest carpet in the world, which was removed from a grave at the foot of the Altai Mountains in 1949, belongs to Turkish tribes, a study on the motifs and engravings on it has found.

İbrahim Tellioğlu, a historian from Ondokuz Mayıs University, said that the visuals, figures and motifs used on the carpet are a product of Turkish culture.

Turkey's carpet export valued at $2.5 billion in 2019, up 11.9 percent year-on-year, a sector board of the Turkish Exporters' Assembly said on Jan. 3.

"We aim to raise this figure to $3 billion in 2020," said the Carpet Industries Board Chairman Salahattin Kaplan.

Turkey sold carpets to 181 countries last year, according to the board head.

Turkmenistan's leader on Tuesday hailed as "historic" the announcement that its traditional hand-woven carpets have been recognised as global cultural heritage by the United Nations.

Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov said it was "evidence of world recognition of our marvellous carpets" and will help promote them abroad.

Tens of thousands of hand-woven "postmortem rugs" -- some being centuries old -- were collected by government officials across Turkey for maintenance and classification to be transferred to the coming generations

Dimitris Filippis spent 78 days cut off from the world. After waking up from a medically induced coma, the tip of a cypress tree was the only thing he could see from the window of his room at Evangelismos Hospital in Athens. He would stare at it for hours, wondering what else was "out there," unable to move.

Hand-woven carpets lying in fields for sterilization and gaining their pastel colors in the sun create colorful images in Turkey's Mediterranean resort city of Antalya.

Turkey targets $500 million of carpet export to the U.S. by the end of 2018, a regional carpet export association head said on Nov. 5.

The last weaver in Kastamonu unveils traditional handmade rugs

April 5 is International Pillow Fighting day with massive pillow fights around the world from Shanghai to New York, and of course Greece! Two pillow fights have already been organized at Syntagma Square in Athens and Aristotelous Square Thessaloniki.

Two non-governmental organizations appealed to the public on Wednesday to donate clothing and food to help dozens of refugees from war-torn Syria who have flooded into Thessaloniki over the past few weeks.