Latest News Blog

Christmas Opening Times 2017

10 December 2017  |  Kim

We are open 7 days a week up to Christmas, check out our Christmas Opening Times Here...

Late Night Christmas Shopping

6 December 2016  |  Kim

We have our Late Night Christmas Shopping event in the North Laine on 8 December, some of the (now) 54 shops that will be open will be offering nibbles, discounts or wine plus great shopping!

Luxury Travel Experts Kuoni Using Yashar Bish Rugs for New Stores!

11 October 2016  |  Kim

Luxury Worldwide Travel Experts Kuoni are using our Kilims & Rugs in their Stores, they are opening stores across the country and have used lots of our rugs to create a great atmosphere for travel planning!  

This is their new Windsor Store - they have used our lovely fine Ghalmouri Kilims to upholster the original train seating.

This is the Kuoni's concession in the John Lewis, Leicester Store, again the fine Ghalmouri Kilims look great!

Here Kuoni Travel have used a lovely vintage, soft coloured Turkish Kilim - setting the scene in the John Lewis Welwyn Garden City Store

Persian Carpet & Rug Shipment

10 October 2016  |  Kim

Some of our Persian rug shipment getting packed in Persia ready for their journey to us in Brighton, only another 20 bales to pack. Very excited about their arrival! 

BBC's Have I Got News For You!

6 October 2016  |  Kim

See our Suzani embroideries and other textiles in the BBC's Have I Got New For You trailer with Paul Merton!

Repairing a Kilim

5 September 2016  |  Kim

Ever wondered how a fraying or uneven fringe can be repaired, or even the selvedge or other damaged areas?

Just Back from Buying Trip!

28 August 2016  |  Kim

We have just come back from a fantastic carpet buying trip in Persia. Although the weather was hot we worked from early morning to late evening hunting out gorgeous pieces. Our stock won't arrive until later in the year, hopefully end of October but here is a preview of some of our finds and other things we thought worthy of a photograph!

Turkish delivery

12 October 2014  |  Kim

Our Turkish Goods are Now In!

Oct 2014

We have been very busy sorting through our delivery, it just arrived so we have been getting all the kilims, suzani embroideries and our new range of great value Ottoman Floor Cushions ready for the website and they can now be viewed in the relevant sections or in our Latest Arrivals Section here

We have some lovely new items in stock which will make great ideas for Christmas, we will upload some of these to the website as soon as we can or please visit our shop to see them straight away!  

Fabulous Turkish Kilims, all gorgeous designs and attractive prices including larger sized softer coloured pieces.

Beautiful Turkish Kilim Runners.

Hundreds of our popular Turkish Rectangular floor cushions in many many designs and colours together with some new square size floor cushions, prices range from just £25 to £45, see them here in our Ottoman Floor Cushion category

Embroidered Velvet Uzbek shoulder Bags

A new selection of vintage Uzbek and Turkoman Robes

Beautiful colourful ceramic coasters, hotplates and some new mini and medium sized hand painted Turkish bowls.

We have a new range of purses in gold and colourful fabrics.

Also in are a range of shoes!  All hand made in gorgeous Turkish opulent fabrics!

Belly dance coin belts.

Key rings in various types ie tassels, fabrics and bits and bobs.

We have, at last found some fabulous Daphne (Laurel) natural soap, the smell is divine!

We have a new range of good value very large Embroideries with cream backgrounds, great for bed covers as well as other brightly coloured suzani embroideries from Uzbekistan.

Large range of very colourful, decorative Tassels made of bright fabrics with lovely tribal tassels at the end, great for tie backs or belts.

Quirky tribal necklaces with all sorts of oddments and tassels attached.

Plus loads more!!

Mobile Site Now Live

8 July 2014  |  Kim

We have been working hard on our mobile website which will automatically come up on mobile devices for ease of use of the website; customers can easily revert to the full site if they prefer, by clicking the black bar at the bottom of the mobile site.  Tablets will automatically bring up the full site as they render well on tablets, ipads etc. We hope you like the new mobile version.

New Website Categories

18 May 2014  |  Kim

In addition to the existing four lamp sections we now have a new section called "All Lamps" where you can find ALL our lamps in one place.  

In addition, we have also set up a permanent "Latest Arrivals" section where you can see the latest items uploaded to the website. This can be found on the Navigation Bar at the top of the site.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

24 December 2013  |  Kim

We would like to thank all our customers for their support throughout 2013 and wish everybody a very Merry Christmas and a healthy, happy 2014.

Turkish goods now arrived

24 November 2013  |  Kim

Soon we will have our Lamp delivery arriving, so lots to be excited about. You can see the Latest Arrivals here and as soon as we have time we will upload the other new items, or visit our shop to see them straight away!  

• Beautiful Kilim Runners in all sizes ie long, wide, narrow and thin
• Great selection of larger sized Turkish Kilims at very reasonable prices
• Some soft pastel very fine cicim weave Kilims
• Hundreds upon hundreds of gorgeous Turkish Kilim Cushions in a mixture of sizes including bolsters
• Natural cream cicim weave Turkish Kilim Bolsters with fine autumnal coloured embroidery.
• Large floor cushions and bolsters made from Uzbek suzani embroideries using bright zingy colours and softer creams and beiges.
• Velvet Uzbek Ikat shoulder Bags
• Ikat Ipad cases!
• Uzbek and Turkoman Robes
• Kutchi dress panels and embroideries
• Afghan Print blocks
• Original woollen Turkoman socks
• Beautiful colourful ceramic mugs, coasters and hotplates
• Bright and cheerful vintage bowls from Uzbekistan 
• Russian wool flower shawls
• Gorgeous gold plated Afghan Earrings.

• Mosaic lamps galore including swan neck table lamps and some large one off main ceiling lamps
• Mosaic tea light holders in two sizes

Delivery now in

10 November 2013  |  Kim

New delivery now in which consists of some beautiful hand woven vegetable dyed kilims and corridor runners to name a few - see more here in our Latest Arrivals Section.  

Turkish Goods Arrived

26 October 2013  |  Kim

• Beautiful Kilim Runners in all sizes ie long, wide, narrow and thin
• Great selection of larger sized Turkish Kilims at very reasonable prices
• Some soft pastel very fine cicim weave Kilims
• Hundreds upon hundreds of gorgeous Turkish Kilim Cushions in a mixture of sizes including bolsters
• Natural cream cicim weave Turkish Kilim Bolsters with fine autumnal coloured embroidery.
• Large floor cushions and bolsters made from Uzbek suzani embroideries using bright zingy colours and softer creams and beiges.
• Velvet Uzbek Ikat shoulder Bags
• Ikat Ipad cases!
• Uzbek and Turkoman Robes
• Kutchi dress panels and embroideries
• Print blocks
• Original woollen Turkoman socks
• Beautiful colourful ceramic mugs, coasters and hotplates
• Bright and cheerful vintage bowls from Uzbekistan 
• Russian wool flower shawls
• Mosaic lamps galore including swan neck table lamps and some large one off main ceiling lamps
• Mosaic tea light holders in two sizes
• Gorgeous gold plated earrings

Plus much more. We will send out a newsletter once all the goods are in our shop, please subscribe to our newsletter to receive a copy.

Carpet Cleaning and Repairs

3 March 2013  |  Kim

We cannot accept any rug and carpet cleaning/repairs from Wednesday 5th March 2013 until Monday 25th March 2013 inclusive.  We are happy to receive and rugs for cleaning and repairs from Tuesday 26th March 2013.  This is due to staff holidays and we apologise for any inconvenience.

Welcome to our Blog

10 February 2013  |  Kim

Watch this space - we plan to post news and articles about Handmade Rugs, Textiles, Our Travels, Our Shop, and anything else we feel our customers may like to hear about!