Gultekin

Knitters

Gultekin

Qebele region. 35 years old.  She has two children.   She learned how to knit when she was a child from her grandmother.  She has no other job and she loves knitting.  She spends her money for her household.   

Refiqe

Qebele region. 55 years old.   Three kids and three grandchildren.  She works as a cleaner at the school.   Her mom taught her how to knit and make carpets.  Her mom would make the yarn and dye it and she would knit them into slippers.   She wants to teach her...

Shefiqe

Qebele Region. 44 years old She has three children. For 20 years she has been knitting these socks and she learned from her aunt.   She works in the kitchen at the school.

Jamila

Cemile is from the village of Qemervan in Qebele region and is a part of the Lezgi people group. Cemile is 45 years old and has 2 children.  She became a grandmother at 43 years old and likes to spend her money on her granddaughter.  She learned how to knit...