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Summer rays in Turkey's Antalya clean and color hand-woven carpets

Hand-woven carpets lying in fields for sterilization and gaining their pastel colors in the sun create colorful images in Turkey's Mediterranean resort city of Antalya.

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Summer rays in Turkeys Antalya clean and color hand-woven carpets

The carpets are collected from villages, especially from elderly people and they are firstly repaired, Halil Börekçi, a carpet maker in Antalya, told Anadolu Agency.

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Summer rays in Turkeys Antalya clean and color hand-woven carpets

"We keep carpets in the sun to get rid of everything except organic root dye and wool," he said and added: "The carpets soften as they expose to sunlight during the day and moisture at night and all the dirt as well as added paint come out of the carpet."

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Summer rays in Turkeys Antalya clean and color hand-woven carpets

Halil Borekci said tourists prefer carpets with organic root dye, adding that mostly Americans and Australians show interest to the carpets.

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Summer rays in Turkeys Antalya clean and color hand-woven carpets

Around 10,000 carpets are antiquated in a year, he added.

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Summer rays in Turkeys Antalya clean and color hand-woven carpets

Carpets with historical value also take place in the fields, another carpet maker Zeynep Börekçi said.

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Summer rays in Turkeys Antalya clean and color hand-woven carpets

"We do our best to preserve hand-woven carpets," she added.

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Summer rays in Turkeys Antalya clean and color hand-woven carpets

Photographers, visual artists and enthusiasts visit the fields to shoot films and images.