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[observer]

Naturally all the carpet makers were Greek and went to Greece. By a strange coincidence all the coffee makers were Greek too, and moved to Cyprus, making Cyprus coffee the real thing, and Turkish coffee a myth.

[denizaksulu]

Isn't this Greek (pseudo-Turkish) rug gorgeous ...

Anything handmade is gorgeous. But people might have different tastes.

The first one you posted looked better in, spite of the 'stylised' crosses.

I need to 'feel' before I can judge properly.

[CBBB]

Isn't this Greek (pseudo-Turkish) rug gorgeous ...

Anything handmade is gorgeous. But people might have different tastes.

The first one you posted looked better in, spite of the 'stylised' crosses.

I need to 'feel' before I can judge properly.

You dirty ole man! Wanting to feel O's rug!

[denizaksulu]

Isn't this Greek (pseudo-Turkish) rug gorgeous ...

Anything handmade is gorgeous. But people might have different tastes.

The first one you posted looked better in, spite of the 'stylised' crosses.

I need to 'feel' before I can judge properly.

You dirty ole man! Wanting to feel O's rug!

[Oracle]

Naturally all the carpet makers were Greek and went to Greece. By a strange coincidence all the coffee makers were Greek too, and moved to Cyprus, making Cyprus coffee the real thing, and Turkish coffee a myth.

In time, you will come to realise your whole "nation" is built on the sweat, inspiration and creativity of the better human beings.

[I've already dealt with the Ottomans banning coffee before realizing they could capitalise on this Ethiopian originating beverage.]

As for carpets and rugs, you were such late starters it doesn't bear thinking about. The cheap tat you manufacture now is an embarrassment to the Greek artists of Smyrna who sweated away to make some of the finest rugs which competed favourably with those of the Persians (late-comers relative to the Greeks also, but having the good grace to perfect the technique too, unlike the Turks)

In the books of Solomon and Ezekiel in the Old
Testament we find mention made in several places
of carpets, and the wealthy Romans and Greeks
in the time of Homer had some magnificent floor
coverings worth fortunes.

[Oracle]

Turks to Return Historic Carpet to Greek Owners

Written by Agence France-Presse
Friday, 26 June 2009 21:22

ATHENS - A family of carpet makers in the Turkish city of Izmir are trying to return a carpet left behind more than 80 years ago by ethnic Greeks that fled the Turkish army, an official said Tuesday.
The 40-square-meter carpet had been ordered by a Greek family in Izmir -- which was occupied by the Greek army at the time -- shortly before the city fell to Turkish forces, the prefect of Lesbos island Pavlos Vogiatzis told AFP. The name Ekaterini Lazaropoulou and the year 1922 are woven into the carpet.
The Turkish family had tried to locate Lazaropoulou's relatives in Greece without success, Angelioforos daily reported. But they now have the option of gifting the carpet to a Greek refugee museum on Lesbos.
Thousands of Greeks at Izmir, members of a once-flourishing class of traders and artisans, were massacred while fleeing victorious Turkish forces who took the city in September 1922 at the end of a three-year war with Greece. The city was known under its Greek name of Smyrna at the time. Memories of the "Smyrna Catastrophe" still run deep in Greece.
Agence France-Presse

[kurupetos]

Isn't this Greek (pseudo-Turkish) rug gorgeous ...

Anything handmade is gorgeous. But people might have different tastes.

The first one you posted looked better in, spite of the 'stylised' crosses.

I need to 'feel' before I can judge properly.

You dirty ole man! Wanting to feel O's rug!

Ano ole ole!

[denizaksulu]

Isn't this Greek (pseudo-Turkish) rug gorgeous ...

Anything handmade is gorgeous. But people might have different tastes.

The first one you posted looked better in, spite of the 'stylised' crosses.

I need to 'feel' before I can judge properly.

You dirty ole man! Wanting to feel O's rug!

Ano ole ole!

Methinks you are in need of a shower.

[kurupetos]

Isn't this Greek (pseudo-Turkish) rug gorgeous ...

Anything handmade is gorgeous. But people might have different tastes.

The first one you posted looked better in, spite of the 'stylised' crosses.

I need to 'feel' before I can judge properly.

You dirty ole man! Wanting to feel O's rug!

Ano ole ole!

Methinks you are in need of a shower.

Later!

[Mikiko]

The best are from Iran especially from ELAM not the fascist organisation of course in Cyprus (they cant produce anything) but from soutwest area of Iran :

Elam was an ancient civilization located in what is now southwest Iran. Elam was centered in the far west and the southwest of modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of Khuzestan and Ilam Province, as well as a small part of southern Iraq.