Stone Age memory meets Şeki silk
Europe
Finland’s lakeside cliffs hold 5,000-year-old paintings in red ochre — the same mineral found in Azerbaijan’s Gobustan petroglyphs. When the oldest human marks meet the oldest silk tradition, something ancient becomes new again.
Finest silk dyed with natural roots.
Collections from Europe
By motif
Buta
The almond-flame — the motif at the base of the Bakı type, and the first shape a master learns to carve.
15 pieces
SHOP →Çələng
The wreath — flower heads closed into a ring at the heart of the cloth.
4 pieces
SHOP →Şəmsə
The sun medallion — the ancient solar sign pressed at the centre of the kelaghayi.
3 pieces
SHOP →By colour
Göy
The blues — counted among the healing colours, worn to turn the eye away.
11 pieces
SHOP →Al
The reds — al is the bride's colour, the scarf a mother-in-law gives, that veils the face and swaddles a first child.
9 pieces
SHOP →Yaşıl
The greens — one of the seven colours of the yeddi rəng, the palette a master must command.
6 pieces
SHOP →Bənövşə
The violets — alvan, the living colour a young woman is expected to wear.
5 pieces
SHOP →Qızıl
The golds — onion skin and ochre, the tones the earth gives up most readily.
4 pieces
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Finland
Aino Mäkinen
Aino Mäkinen grew up on the shores of Lake Saimaa in southern Finland, where the granite cliffs along the waterways still hold 5,000-year-ol…
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Aino Mäkinen
Aino Mäkinen grew up on the shores of Lake Saimaa in southern Finland, where the granite cliffs along the waterways still hold 5,000-year-old paintings in red ochre — human figures, elk, boats, and geometric marks left by Stone Age hunters who believed the rock was alive. She spent her childhood tracing these shapes with her fingers. She spent her adulthood learning to press them into silk.