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soul magic felt Öykü Thurston

Öykü Thurston's history is tied to the magic of felt since childhood, when he was ten years in Japan begins to learn the secrets of the production. Many years later, in 2006 opened Art.I.Choke, his shop and workshop in Istanbul (Çukurcuma, Faikpaşa Sokuşu, 1 http://www.artichoke212.com/ ).
Even today, when he speaks of the felt, with her big brown eyes, evokes an almost magical. He works alone in his studio, with its pure natural fibers, with the olive oil soap and hot water that are used for felting. He says he felt the soul lives and breathes. Remains enchanted while under the hand follows the soft wrinkles that are forming, and veins that unexpectedly show the path of a design, shape, and without prior notice giving rise to a stole or a flower hat. The felt gives its leaders a sense of metamorphosis that cancels the boundaries between tiers of silk and wool and makes the subtle shift in the flax or hemp soft combinations of different types of fibers. Öykü also use hemp, soy, bamboo. The attention to the quality of the fibers is greatest. The wool is used exclusively Australian or English, the silk is bought in Japan. In a few scattered field goal in the studio you can see small skeins of raw linen or silk cocoons naturally. Even attention to the house is very much alive in the creations of Art.i.choke (are beautiful rugs and blankets). Öykü is an architect who studied at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. The site is well worth Art.i.choke of Çukurcuma a visit for the atmosphere of the rooms. Among bright windows and antique mirrors, exposed clothes, bags, slippers and even some small soaps wrapped in felt like soft beige and white pebbles .. Öykü loves to remember what the felt is deeply tied to ancient traditions of his homeland. At one time, to take refuge during the night, the soft downy fiber surfaces became insidious scorpions and secure shelter for the sleep of men. After millennia of history, this tradition of craftsmanship that just in Central Asia and Turkey has further improved, becomes, in the able hands of Öykü Thurston, a valuable source of inspiration unusual for elegance, sophistication, and also ... label.
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(The Gazette Istanbul Year XVII, No. 3 March 2009)
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Berber villages in the Moroccan Atlas

All women of the cooperative rural N'Fed Agni, wrapped in the elegance of their costumes, with their dark eyes made even deeper blacks traits of kajal, were a circle of hands, stones, nuts, argan, colorful veils has dragged us into their lives with a quiet and welcoming embrace of looks. Just arrived to the headquarters of M & D, the NGO with which we started, we knew Nourdine, born in a small Berber village dell'Antiatlante Moroccan. And 'our guide was valuable in those days of walking. And 'he who accompanied us to Agni N'Fed, not far from Taliouine, to view the first project with our choice of travel had helped finance. Nourdine we saw no tourists, but travelers. Why we walked on foot, we had a mule for some luggage, water and a few oranges bought at the village bequeathed suk behind. Made tea lighting small fires in the shelter of a rock in a desert of gray and ocher when it seemed that the goats can burn only stones to survive. When we see a kasbah, with its green terraces of almond and olive trees, we knew when we arrived, the women would continue to work in the fields, to carry bundles of grass for the animals and the children they would smile from afar. So we were really "travelers" because the daily life of the village seemed to flow undisturbed by our presence. The evening
Nourdine asked a family to host for the night and someone there gave way cushions and carpets on the floor of the same color of the goats. Nourdine told us that the Berbers of Morocco open their homes to anyone who knocks on their door in friendship. When a break in the shade of a marabout orange peel, place the peel in sight for the flocks that sooner or later would come in the wake of a nomadic shepherd. He did so with a grace of sharing that I have seen in the gestures of many Berbers in those days.
Living with the villagers is a privilege made possible by the Responsible Tourism. This style of travel that seeks to curb far as possible the often devastating effects of mass tourism, focusing instead on criteria of social equity and respect for cultural and environmental, may, of course, ability to adapt to conditions of life very simple. But travelers looking for authenticity in their experience of solidarity and consider the crucial meeting with a mediator for us as Nourdine with host communities (NGOs, village communities, farmers' associations, etc...) in responsible tourism, in addition, much of the revenue goes directly to fund development projects in the areas visited and the knowledge of these projects is an integral part of the journey. And then, in return, a solidarity trip continues ... carrying water in the camps, providing income to women, preserving traditional crops, combating illiteracy rural areas, but most of all on-site forming the actors aware of sustainable development.

Argan oil Argan

(Argan spinosa) is a very old tree endemic to southwest Morocco where the fruits of small knobs of intense yellow color, we get a valuable oil. Moroccan argan forests have been classified by UNESCO "Biosphere Reserve" and in 2001, Slow Food. The argan oil is at the center of village life in this area: the leaves and pulp of the berries are food for goats that climb on top of the branches and women derive from the nuts for centuries, through an extremely acute working with stones and small mills, an oil used for cosmetic purposes that food (in this case the seeds are toasted.)

Argan oil has exceptional antioxidant properties, softening, moisturizing and soothing properties and is rich in vitamin E. With argan oil and almond prepares the amlou who along with bread and tea is offered in the Berber villages as a sign of welcome.

( E'lifestyle , A. III, No. 9, pp. 60-63)

http://issuu.com/elifestyle/docs/summer09 (p. 60)

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