Culture & Heritage
Crafts
Kilim weaving, copperwork, jewellery and stone.
Kurdish Silver Jewellery
Silver jewellery is to Kurdish women what coin was to old economies: a woman's silver may serve as her entire dowry. The most famous pieces are the bilezk — a h...
Copperwork
Coppersmithing is one of the oldest urban Kurdish crafts, especially in Diyarbakır, Mardin and Akre. Whole quarters in old Amed are still called the 'coppersmit...
Kilim Weaving
Kilim weaving — flat-woven pile-less rugs — is among the oldest and most identity-laden of Kurdish crafts. Women weave the kilim on a horizontal wooden loom inh...