photos : turhal
 Emrah’s family Emrah (in glasses), his brother Erdal, nephew Serdal, mother Zeynep, and sister-in-law Esen. |
 Sezgin He’s a painter. He’s going to paint Emrah’s mother’s house. |
 starting! The first stripe of pink gets put on the blue house. |
 Zeynep baking While she’s waiting for her house to be a new color, Zeynep is baking gözleme (filled pancakes). The dough has risen, a fire will soon be started under the metal lens, dough will be rolled thin and filled with a cheese/herb mixture and then baked quickly on the hot iron plate. Yum!! |
 Emrah and SezginThe two painters pause in their work for a photo op. |
 The apprentice I’m helping out - the lines aren’t my idea, but an apprentice just does what she’s told to do… |
 almost done It took two days, but it looks great. the only part left to do is the door area. This idea of painting the strips where the windows are a contrasting color seems to be popular in this area. I helped pick out the colors… |
 Knitting Lessonone of Zeynep’s handmade rugs - done in twisted garter stitch and intarsia for the colors. The rugs are done in strips (in this case three), then sewed together and given another smaller strip border. Very durable! |
 more knitting some older handknitted rugs, still lovely colors and patterns. |
