Kervan Carpet & Kilim, Goreme

This is the best carpet shop in Turkey! Ibrahim has an excellent selection of beautiful rugs at wonderful prices. He is very knowledgeable about the rugs and can tell you about their history, origin and what the symbols on the rugs mean. He also repairs older rugs and also makes patchwork rugs that are such cool and innovative art. (The rugs can also be folded to fit in your suitcase!). I love going to this shop and definitely recommend it to everyone I know!

I can’t say enough positive things about our rug buying experience. In contrast to what we experienced at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Ibrahim was honest, extremely fair, patient and not pushing to buy. No need to do much haggling because of the fair price given on the onset. We came to look at maybe buying one rug and ended up buying 6 because of the great prices and beautiful rugs that family at home asked to get some. We love how he uses old rugs to make new things (like pillow cases). He even had his son drive us back to our hotel so we didn’t need to carry them all. He then took us to our hotel in the next town over and wouldn’t take a tip that we offered for his trouble. What a genuine family. I’ll definitely be recommending this shop to anyone who comes to Cappadocia!