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- ProductEmbroidered Blanket LabelA name embroidered in soft thread, ready to sew onto the blanket that goes everywhere with them.
- StoryChoosing a name four times: how we learnt to love a nameSüleyman Taha, Muammer Esat, Hamza Bera, Mehmet Emde. We chose a name for four boys and learnt the same lesson each time: a name isn’t found on a list, it’s found by calling it out loud. On the quiet side of naming a baby — with a note on why Turkish children so often carry two names.
- StoryEmbroidery and remembering: what happens when a name is written in threadEvery 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.
- StoryOne stitch, one breath: why knitting is the calmest thing we doIn hospital waiting rooms, on bus seats, in front of the evening news — women in Türkiye were always knitting something. Now the needles are back in young hands, and doctors are saying what grandmothers already knew: knitting calms you down.
- StoryThe sewing machine is back — and it was never just a hobbySewing classes in Dublin sell out months ahead, New York declares sewing “cool again”, and across Türkiye the old Singers are coming down from the attic. What’s behind the quiet comeback — and where does a new mother find room for it?