BENBIZ STORE · DISCOVER

From handmade work to learning, discover what speaks to you.

Visit a maker’s workshop, follow a product’s story or explore something you would like to learn. Here you can meet makers we know and see illustrative examples of how this market could grow.

Kurucu Raf examples are not open for sale.

A BenBiz image bringing production, work and human connection into one frame.

GET TO KNOW WHAT YOU FIND

Know what is offered and meet the person behind it.

How is it made?

A bag’s materials, where food is grown, what a course covers… See how the work comes together as you explore.

Who makes it?

Step into the workshop through photographs, videos and the maker’s own words. Mert’s page offers our first real example.

What can I do now?

Browse illustrative shelves, express your interest or prepare an exchange listing for your own contribution. Mert’s products link to his own Strawderi site.

FIRST INTRODUCTIONS

Meet the first stories taking shape in this market.

Mert Başbuğ’s story, original photographs, existing videos and Strawderi products are here. The learning record links to current BenBiz & Mindbugnush information; scope and fee are agreed for each programme, and the image is illustrative. BenBiz sales, enrolment and payments stay closed. Strawderi product links open Mert’s own site.

Actual workshop photograph of Mert Başbuğ demonstrating leather stitching to participants — REAL MAKER · STRAWDERI

Craft & production

Mert Başbuğ · Handmade Leather Wallets & Accessories

Meet Strawderi founder Mert through a gift idea that became a craft, his handwork and the workshops where he shares what he learns.

İstanbul · KartalMeet the maker

A group of adults working with reading passages around a large table in Istanbul — REAL PROGRAMME INFORMATION · REGISTRATION CLOSED

Learning & culture

Group Speed-Reading Programme

Reading comprehension, attention and learning habits within BenBiz & Mindbugnush. The programme is agreed with the educators around participants’ needs.

Istanbul · venue and dates to be confirmedExplore service

KURUCU RAF

What could we make possible together?

The products, services and maker profiles in this section are illustrative. They suggest how the market could grow and do not offer stock, production capacity or sales.

Freshly harvested tomatoes of different varieties in a wooden crate beside a field — KURUCU RAF EXAMPLE · NOT FOR SALE

Food & growing

Local Summer Tomatoes · 3 kg Harvest Box

A local-market example built around morning harvest, a short delivery distance and an open record of growing methods.

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Hatay · example regionExplore product

A sliced dark-crusted whole-wheat sourdough loaf in front of a stone oven — KURUCU RAF EXAMPLE · BAKERY PRODUCTION NOT STARTED

Food & growing

Stone-Milled Sourdough Village Loaf

A bread concept representing the Oba Bakery horizon, imagined with stone-milled whole wheat flour and long fermentation.

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Şile · example production locationExplore product

Fresh mint leaves and an unlabelled amber dropper bottle in front of a copper still — KURUCU RAF EXAMPLE · NO HEALTH CLAIMS

Care & wellbeing

Peppermint Essential Oil · 10 ml

A value-added product example following an aromatic plant from cultivation through steam distillation and safe-use records.

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Tokat · example regionExplore product

Light textured overshirt on a wooden hanger in a natural-fabric workshop — KURUCU RAF EXAMPLE · FIBRE RATIO NOT SET

Clothing & textiles

Hemp-Blend Design Overshirt

A design example making hemp’s route from harvest to yarn, cloth and a long-lived garment visible.

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Rize · example production chainExplore product

Hemp hurd, lime and porous sample blocks of different sizes on a workbench — KURUCU RAF EXAMPLE · NOT A BUILDING PRODUCT

Home & living

Hemp-Lime Material · Sample Set

An uncertified R&D sample set exploring how hemp stalks might be used in building and insulation research.

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ObaNova · R&D conceptExplore product

A single-storey natural wooden beehive in an Anatolian orchard — KURUCU RAF EXAMPLE · MAKER AND SPECIFICATION NOT SET

Craft & production

Locally Crafted Wooden Beehive

A single-storey wooden hive example bringing the beekeeper’s need and a carpenter’s knowledge into one production profile.

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Anatolia · maker to be confirmedExplore product

Soil sampling in a field with an auger, sample tray and measuring tool — KURUCU RAF EXAMPLE · NO LAB PARTNER YET

Services & production readiness

Soil Analysis & Initial Production Consultation

A service example bringing sampling, a competent laboratory and local needs into one profile before production decisions are made.

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Depending on regionExplore service

A woman grower speaking about the harvest in a tomato field — KURUCU RAF PROFILE · NOT A REAL PERSON

Food & growing

Local Harvest Grower · Sample Profile

A sample profile showing how a local grower’s story will be told without inventing a real person’s identity.

Anatolia · awaiting a real growerMeet the maker

A craftsperson examining natural cloth and porous material samples beside a loom — KURUCU RAF PROFILE · TEAM NOT FORMED

Craft & production

Natural Fibre & Materials Workshop · Sample Profile

A sample profile for a future maker team that could bring hemp fibre, weaving and natural-building samples into one R&D workshop.

Anatolia · team not formed yetMeet the maker

An unfinished jacket on a dress form with patterns, fabrics and working hands in a tailor’s studio — KURUCU RAF EXAMPLE · ORDERS CLOSED

Clothing & textiles

One Jacket Workshop · Made-to-Measure Production

A representative profile for a made-to-measure jacket maker who shapes fabric, pattern, lining, buttons and fittings around the person rather than forcing the person into a standard block.

Production location to be verifiedMeet the maker

A wax model, mould, raw cast pieces and a hand-finished small object on a casting bench — KURUCU RAF EXAMPLE · COLLECTION NOT FOR SALE

Craft & production

Casting Traces · Small-Batch Collection

A representative maker profile making visible the casting and collection knowledge accumulated around Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar through design, model, mould, metal and hand-finishing stages.

Istanbul · representative craft settingMeet the maker

Handmade vessels at wet, leather-hard, bisque and glazed stages in a ceramics studio — KURUCU RAF EXAMPLE · AWAITING WORKSHOP APPROVAL

Home & living

Trace of Earth · Ceramic Objects for Daily Life

A representative profile for a small-batch ceramic maker whose pieces retain the marks of hand-shaping, drying, glazing and firing.

Workshop to be verifiedMeet the maker

Hands exchanging different seed envelopes beside a village garden, dried pods and sorted seeds — KURUCU RAF EXAMPLE · NO SALE, EXCHANGE MODEL

Food & growing

Seed Steward · Heirloom Seed Grower & Inter-Oba Exchange

A representative grower profile carrying local seeds from seed to seed without sale, while recording origin, growing year and the exchange chain.

Region of origin to be verifiedMeet the maker

Unlabelled glass dropper, spray and table bottles with salt crystals on a bright kitchen counter — KURUCU RAF EXAMPLE · NO HEALTH CLAIMS

Food & growing

Source Salt Workshop · Natural Liquid Salt Kitchen Set

A representative maker profile for liquid salt in kitchen formats such as dropper, spray and table bottle, with source, analysis, batch and use boundaries kept visible.

Source and bottling location to be verifiedMeet the maker

Dark tar slowly flowing from an earthen rural kiln into an unlabelled metal vessel — KURUCU RAF EXAMPLE · NO USE CLAIMS

Craft & production

Traditional Tar Kiln · Maker Portrait

A representative maker profile drawing on traditional production knowledge in Konya and its inherited understanding of kiln, fire and time.

Konya · representative production regionMeet the maker

Natural textured cloth, patterns, garment panels, seam sample and working hands on a clothing studio table — KURUCU RAF EXAMPLE · FIBRE RATIO UNVERIFIED

Clothing & textiles

From Fibre to Clothing · Hemp Garment Maker

A representative maker profile focused less on one finished shirt and more on pattern, small-batch production, care, repair and working-life decisions.

Production chain to be verifiedMeet the maker

An unfinished natural-textile prototype, separate sole, last, stitch samples and tools on a shoemaker’s bench — KURUCU RAF EXAMPLE · NO SAMPLE OR TESTING

Clothing & textiles

From Fibre to Step · Hemp Footwear Maker

A representative footwear-maker profile asking about sustainability across upper, sole, adhesive, stitching, durability and repairability rather than the upper fabric alone.

Prototype workshop to be verifiedMeet the maker

MORE OF THE STORY

Hear from the people who do the work.

Start with photographs and videos from Mert’s workshop. In the exchange area, you can also introduce your own product, service or skill with photographs and a presentation video.

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