51�Թ�

She has set up shop in the town of Van, where she is apprenticing in the art of kilim, Turkey’s traditional flat-woven rugs.

The prevailing turtleneck styles on the market tend to be either too flimsy—fine for layering but lacking the body to be worn on their own—or just boxy and flat-woven and boring.

Until World War II brides would stash kilims, a kind of flat-woven rug, in their dowry chests.

Kilims, or flat-woven rugs, have long been considered the s poor relatives of the Oriental knotted pile rugs that have proved to be one of the best �though specialized�hedges against inflation in recent years.