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Istanbul: Rescuing a Dying Art { 14 images } Created 7 Dec 2013

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  • Canadian-born Jennifer Gaudet finds families with a tradtion of weaving and makes it economically viable for them to take up their craft again.  Looms are often handed down from generation to generation.  Increasingly, there is no one to whom to hand down the family business.  A glut of cheaper factory-made products has pushed the art of weaving to the fringes.  Sometimes Jennifer and staff rescue and repair looms, expecially if they were designed for intricate weaves.  She travels the country, working with designers and weavers, sourcing local cotton and silk, and drawing inspiration.  Over time, the market she has built for high-quality towels, pestamels, scarves and soaps made from locally-sourced cotton, silk and ingredients has fueled demand for three stores - and is reviving a dying art..
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  • Intricate textiles woven on looms handed down through generations. An array of laurel, olive and lavender bath products and the hammered bowls to hold them. Silk shawls with which to drape the color of the Aegean in a graceful arc below bare shoulders.<br />
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All organic and produced locally, with the specific intent of preserving a dying art.<br />
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Jennifer’s Hamam works with traditional Turkish weavers to produce luxuriously looped Turkish towels, flat-woven pestamels (the wraps used in hamams, similar to a sarong), and fine silks woven from hand-spun thread. Looms are passed from one generation to the next. New designs evolve over time. Part entrepreneur and part preservationist, Jennifer and her staff are generous with their knowledge and delight in sharing their affordable luxuries. Wander, shop, and emerge enlightened.<br />
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Accessibility: A wheeled walker can easily maneuver the main path of the Arasta Bazaar.
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  • A pestamel (pronouned "pesh-ta-mel") is like a sarong and is traditionally worn at a hamam or Turkish bath.
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  • This reversible pestamel is an intricate new design from a rescued loom.
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