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4worldlovers: Step back and experience the past where quality, natural, and organic were not choices, they just were. This is a time where craftsmanship and the work of a true artisan was appreciated and items purchased became heirlooms lasting decades.

Jennifer's Hamam is a unique company that works with the last of the weaving artisans in Turkiye. Your journey with us will immerse you in this sea of rare and exceptional quality textiles all made on old-style shuttled loom with natural and sustainable threads.

A woven item is very special in today's market, not just because of its beauty, but due to its endurance: flat-woven towels (pestamel) outlast factory-made by almost three times and, in the case of thick, looped towels, between five and six times longer. When you combine this strength and integrity with the highest quality natural fibres, plus that aspect of a human soul that weaves its way into a handmade piece, you then have a product with a level of quality that is exception and a rarity these days.


We are an example to the world of how to empower people, save cultures, heal economies, sustain the planet, and have an amazing time!!


The finest products that uniquely fuse exceptional quality and design while ensuring that the environment is not harmed.


Natural materials grown and processed in Turkey under conditions that support the soil and the planet.


A team who support our values and work to make a positive difference in the world.


Our inner human spirit and its natural desire to celebrate life by honouring old tradition and culture.

In July 2009, Jennifer set out to look for pestamel and thick-looped towels made the traditional way. After 6 days of driving and searching, she found one man working on an old-style shuttled loom. This serendipitous meeting led to meeting another 8 weavers hanging onto their tradition by a thread. This was the meagre beginnings of Jennifer’s Hamam.


It was shocking to discover that the art of weaving was practically lost. Even more startling was had she waited to start her search just 10 days later, the ‘looping’ technique that creates the original thick-looped Turkish towels would have been lost forever. Had she waited 6 months, the entire art of weaving in Turkiye would have been completely extinct.

The support of clients who cherish the quality these artisans produce have allowed Jennifer’s Hamam to expand. When looms are located, they are purchased and refurbished. Roughly 600 working looms are being operated by approx. 3 times that many artisans. With the exception of the 9 craftspeople Jennifer first started with, the rest of the weavers went bankrupt prior to the birth of the company and are weaving again with Jennifer’s Hamam.

That said, it has been more than 40+ years since anyone has learned how to weave and eventually the art will still die if nothing is done. It is Jennifer’s dream to build a weaving school to actually save the art.

GOTS certified organic Turkish cotton threads are purchased by Jennifer to ensure quality standards are met. Organic cotton requires approx. 11 times less water to grow; it does not contaminate the soil, the water table, or the people that still hand-pick it in Turkiye; it’s more absorbent, releases the moisture more quickly, has its antibacterial properties intact, will not go hard, or smell musty.

Jennifer sources the best quality linen threads available in Turkey. An amazingly strong fibre that holds 40x its own weight in water without feeling wet, it was the choice fibre for thousands of years until industrial machines could not cope with uneven, hairy character. On a loom, a weaver must slow down 50% to weave in linen. For absorbency, breathability, and last ability, linen wins every time.

Today’s modern day silk is reeled using very high temperatures and chemicals to increase the speed at which the thread can be obtained from the cocoon. Our silk threads are hand-reeled and hand-spun by the last family still doing the entire process of silk for end product use. Hand-reeled silk using proper temperatures and no chemicals results in a thread stronger than steel.

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