Our story
Inspired by Bodrum. Woven in Turkey.
Pamuk is the Turkish word for cotton. We make Turkish towels the way we grew up with them: generous, honest and built to last.
Why Pamuq exists
A towel from home
Pamuq was started by a founder who grew up on Turkey's Aegean coast, where a good towel is part of every summer day: on the beach, after the hammam, folded on a chair by the sea. Pamuq brings that towel, and that feeling, to American homes.
Bodrum and the Aegean
The summers that shaped us
Bodrum sits where the Aegean meets the Mediterranean: white houses, blue shutters, a castle above the harbor and the long, warm light of a Turkish summer. It is where our colors come from, from Salt and Sandstone to Aegean blue, and the slow kind of life our towels are made for.
The workshop
Woven in Denizli, Turkey
Our towels are woven by a family workshop in Denizli, Turkey, a region that has woven cloth for generations. They weave to order rather than to a warehouse, finish every hem by hand, and check each towel before it is folded and sent.
From the field to your bathroom
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Grown
Long staple cotton is grown in the river valleys of Turkey's Aegean region.
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Spun
The long fibers are spun into fine, strong yarn with few loose ends.
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Woven
Each towel is woven to order in Denizli, Turkey, in plush, ribbed, waffle or flat weave.
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Finished by hand
Hems are stitched, fringes knotted, and every towel is checked one by one.
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Shipped to you
Folded, wrapped and sent from Turkey to your door in the US.
What we stand by
- No softener coatingsThe softness is the cotton, not a finish that washes out.
- Nothing blended in100% Turkish cotton. No polyester, ever.
- Made to lastDouble stitched hems and long fibers that keep their loft.
- Made in TurkeyWoven to order and finished by hand.