If you are on an organized tour, you will almost certainly be deposited at a carpet shop for an hour or so at one point or another. It is worth a look.

Of course, they will not show you their wares without impressing upon you how much effort and skill goes into making a hand-made Turkish carpet. Oh, no. You've got a whole education coming to you first!

Here two salesguys show Anne what the silk cocoons feel like after a soak in hot water. (Nasty, apparently.)