Collection
Soft light, gentle signs and embroidered labels for the room you prepared with love.
When you set up the room you think of every corner: a name on the door, a soft light by the cot, a small label on the blanket. These pieces match the colours you chose, carry the name you picked, and stay on the shelf long after the cot is gone. Leave the light on for night feeds — it glows with their name.
The crafts, rituals and small moments behind these pieces — for the evenings when the house is finally quiet.
Embroidery
After the hospital wristband, most Turkish homes write a baby’s name in one place first: the corner of the blanket. Why there? My mother with an embroidery hoop, a needle that refuses to hurry, and a single lopsided letter found in a cupboard years later.
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Embroidery
Every cloth in my grandmother’s dowry chest had two letters stitched into the corner, and they can still be read today. Why embroidery is back in twenty-somethings’ handbags, and why a baby’s name written with a needle lands so differently from one typed on a screen.
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Knitting & Crochet
As October nears the knitting baskets come out, and the first thing anyone knits is always the same: a pair of bootees. They are small, they are done in an evening, and they open the door to a baby’s first winter. The bootees my mother and I knitted for Mehmet Emde’s first winter taught me how much one small pair can hold.
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