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The Dokur House is a traditional Uşak house of the outer-sofa type, about 180 years old. The sofa is the open-sided hall that a family sits in through the summer; beyond it are the head room where guests were received and the rooms the family lived in. The timber used to build it was cut at a place called Doğala and carried in on people's backs.
It changed hands more than once. The Okkalar family built it and used it to train hafizes. It passed to the Tomas family and, six months later, to the Dokur family, whose name it kept. Uşak municipality bought it in 2004 in order to restore it, keeping the original material and replacing only what had rotted or lost its form.
The house reopened in 2010 as a centre for traditional crafts and carpet weaving, with forty looms. It hosts courses run by the municipality and jointly with the national employment agency and the public education centre, and the carpets woven there — Uşak carpets, a craft that reaches back to the Seljuks and appears often in European painting — are shown and sold in the display section. The municipality's stated aim is to keep the craft alive and to give women work.
