New ethnic fabrics created based on the traditional villages around Anatolia fill the shelves of this stall in the Grand Bazaar. Samples include a silk-on-silk embroidered man's shawl (700YTL/$609/£266) -- the type worn by an Ottoman zeybek (parallel image of a Mafioso type); a raw silk waffle-texture bedsheet, a small collection of raw cotton pestemels, and handwoven linen towels.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Istanbul, 1st Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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