Ibrahim travels extensively to purchase all of the store’s merchandise himself. He also owns a hotel as well as another Ottoman Art store in Istanbul, Turkey. Ibrahim was born in Sivas in Central ...

The vibrant colors of two side-by-shops in St. Helena are a feast for the eyes at Ottoman Art at 1226-1228 Main St. in St. Helena. There are Oriental rugs, hand-crafted Turkish ceramic plates, bowls ...

The more I learn about hand-knotted rugs, the type we grew up calling “Oriental rugs,” the more complex they become. In my experience, choosing one is the single most difficult home design decision ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I love my readers for so many reasons. But topping the list are the wonderful stories you send me, tales that often parallel my own adventures and ...

A century ago, three Armenian brothers – Megar, Arott and Onnig Kirishian – worked in their father’s cottage industry, weaving rugs for export to Europe and America. When World War I broke out, the ...

Independent of style, color or size, there are two options when buying a rug: spend a few hundred dollars on a machine-made rug of middling quality, or invest thousands in a high-quality, hand-woven ...

The Turkish publisher Zengin has published the books based on an agreement with the Pol Literary and Translation Agency, a Tehran-based institution that translates Iranian books and presents ...