A huge variety of hand-made goods finds its way into the city from towns and villages all over Turkey, much of it of very high quality wool and silk carpets, kilims (flat-weave rugs), cicims (embroidered kilims), leather goods, ceramics and pottery, copper and brassware, and jewellery.
A large variety of high quality goods that come into the city are hand-made by villagers and townspeople from all over Turkey.