Silk
Road is the shop that completes Woven History and
offers gift items from every country along the oldest known
trade route (see map below). We carry over two hundred items
from sixteen countries. one never knows what one will find
on the silk road side, which depends on where our caravan
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| Woven
History & Silk Road - Two Treasures, One Gate through
which one enters this Shop of Unity that
offers an exceptionally rich and ever-expanding gallery of
weavings, textiles, gift items, antiques, furniture and collectibles
from along the Silk Road, the oldest-known trade road. Silk
Road side offers over two hundred different items from Turkey,
Bulgaria, Bosnia, Macedonia, Iran, Armenia, Pakistan, Afghanistan,
Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan, Kyrgystan,
Kazakstan, Nepal, Tibet, Sikkim, Bhutan, India, Mongolia and
China. |
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History produces some of the finest vegetable dyed, hand spun wool,
tribal, village and urban rugs in the world at its
own looms, working with Tibetan refugees in Nepal, and Afghan refugees
in Pakistan, with the hope of reviving dying arts and crafts while
helping refugees help themselves, countering child labor in the carpet
industry and providing finest carpets at the best prices. The Tibetans
who oversee our looms in Nepal are one of the founding fathers of
Rugmark. |
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Mehmet Yalcin,
the proprietor, frequently travels along the Silk Road and visits
the looms, villages, bazaars, and tribal groups. There he purchases
one of a kind, collectible weavings, including rugs, kilims, sumaks,
saddle bags, grain bags, salt bags, arrow bags, cicims, vernes and
other textiles. Mehmet feels that hand-selecting the items he imports
is the key to consistently ensure the quality of his merchandise.
Sometimes several hundred rugs must be carefully viewed in order
to pick only two or three pieces. These two shops also serve as
cross-roads for people who have any interest in Central Asia, while
serving as a cultural center by sponsoring various events to serve
the Capitol Hill community, our nation’s neighborhood, and
beyond!
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Woven History's projects
in Pakistan involve Turkmen, Uzbek, Hazara, and Tadjik
refugees, all of whom are |
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At our looms in Nepal we
produce some of the finest Tibetan carpets in 60 knot
(per square inch) and 100 knot quality. |
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Woven History has a large
selection of old and woven new rugs, such as kilims, cicims,
saddle bags heybes), feed |
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