Talysh Socks

As some of you might already know I have inherited the Talysh Sock business here in Lankaran. Until now I have been taking orders by text message, email and Facebook messages, which was getting very tiresome. To make my life easier, and hopefully yours, I have created an online ordering form. Now this form is very limited, as you can only submitted one pair of socks at a time, but you can do it over and over again to your hearts delight or until you run out of money (If anyone wants to help me setup a better system for free, please let me know). Currently my only customers have been Azerbaijan Peace Corps Volunteers, but I hope to change that and have people from all over the world ordering. If you want to be a test subject for international ordering, I would love it, in the comment area put in how I can contact you and we'll work on the shipping details and cost. Payment would be done through Paypal.

For those of you who don't know about the Talysh socks, well here is the run down. Previous Peace Corps Volunteers contacted some Talysh people, who live in the Talysh Mountains (South Azerbaijan, down by Iran) and are known for making these very colorful and warm wool socks. These socks are made from scratch, I hear, but have not confirmed, that they even make their own dyes to color the wool. These socks are very thick and are normally used to wear around the house like slippers but I have known some people to actually squeeze them inside shoes, to each their own. The idea behind the project was to create extra business for these sock makers and to use the profit from selling these socks for local community activities.

I hope some of the current volunteers would be kind enough to write in comment area about how awesome these socks are so that we can get some International orders. Once again if you want to place an order you can find the order form here.