Cotton bazaar is part of a vast commercial network connecting Aleppo to cities such as Istanbul, Baghdad, and even Europe. It was famous for selling high-quality cotton fabrics, which were exported to Muslim and Mediterranean countries. It was opened by the governor of Aleppo, Fikri Pasha, after the opening of the Muslimia-Iskenderun railway line, making Aleppo a huge sorting center. The wooden vault with side openings reflects a soft light on a \u201csteelyard balance\u201d indicating weight by the Turks. A price board engraved with the prices of Kara Afrin and Hassaka cotton can be found inside. The market suffered a minor fire in 2014 and was restored with the original roof. It reopened in 2021 as a permanent exhibit for Cotton Roadthat introduces visitors to the stages of cotton ginning and spinning, and gives children cotton balls to feel and take photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cotton bazaar is part of a vast commercial network connecting Aleppo to cities such as Istanbul, Baghdad, and even Europe. It was famous for selling high-quality cotton fabrics, which were exported to Muslim and Mediterranean countries. It was opened by the governor of Aleppo, Fikri Pasha, after the opening of the Muslimia-Iskenderun railway line, making Aleppo a huge sorting center. The wooden vault with side openings reflects a soft light on a \u201csteelyard balance\u201d indicating weight by the Turks. A price board engraved with the prices of Kara Afrin and Hassaka cotton can be found inside. The market suffered a minor fire in 2014 and was restored with the original roof. It reopened in 2021 as a permanent exhibit for Cotton Roadthat introduces visitors to the stages of cotton ginning and spinning, and gives children cotton balls to feel and take photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,327],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-6011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aleppo","category-historic-souks-and-khans-aleppo","tag-preserved-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}