Here you can read about the fascinating history of Yakto.
Take a look at our traditional workshop where all our handwoven products (silk scarves, shawls) are made.
Miscellaneous articles and information on culture, history, traditional weaving and more.
Here you can read about the fascinating history of Yakto.
Essay and Photos:
Ender Özbay (Ege University Graduate School of Social Sciences, Department of Art History- Research Assistant; ozbayender@gmail.com)
It is night time in Yaqto… Yaqto… A mystery beyond epoches… And now, mingling pitch-darkness with the whiteness of the fog, it’s building hazy walls before my thoughts… I need to set out to thinking with the rhythm of the night. Maybe this is the right way.
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Women sorting large piles of silk cocoons, Antioch.
Date Created/Published: New York ; London ; Toronto-Canada ; Ottawa-Kansas : Underwood & Underwood, Publishers, c1913 March 31.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Antioch 14th July celebrations. The Turks march in to stay. The musicians with silk costume get the picnickers to dance.
LC-DIG-ppmsca-17416-00067 (digital file from original on page 37, no. 2008)
http://memory.loc.gov/