Hats
Caps and hats made by hand, several of them from cloth that was already finished with.
The collection includes the eight-cornered Gakkoş cap of Elazığ — a form traced back through Harput and the Seljuk period, with each of its eight corners standing for a virtue: valour, honesty, diligence, grace, generosity, truth, humility, hospitality. Four artisans are still making it. One of them has been at it for sixty years and works from remnants.
Alongside it are contemporary shapes — bucket hats, soft caps — cut from fabric left after a collection is complete. Different century, same constraint: you make what the remaining cloth allows.
That constraint is deliberate. Aslı Filinta has produced from remaining stock since 2017 rather than ordering new fabric, which means a hat may exist in three pieces or in thirty, depending entirely on what was left over.
Caps and hats made by hand, several of them from cloth that was already finished with.
The collection includes the eight-cornered Gakkoş cap of Elazığ — a form traced back through Harput and the Seljuk period, with each of its eight corners standing for a virtue: valour, honesty, diligence, grace, generosity, truth, humility, hospitality. Four artisans are still making it. One of them has been at it for sixty years and works from remnants.
Alongside it are contemporary shapes — bucket hats, soft caps — cut from fabric left after a collection is complete. Different century, same constraint: you make what the remaining cloth allows.
That constraint is deliberate. Aslı Filinta has produced from remaining stock since 2017 rather than ordering new fabric, which means a hat may exist in three pieces or in thirty, depending entirely on what was left over.
