Bolka grew up in a cabinet of curiosities on the European side of the Bosphorus.

In Anatolian lands, every name carries a meaning. Bolka means abundance in Turkic languages, but also a sultan's cardigan, in velvet or felted wool : somewhere between opulence and dust.

After studying law at King's College London in rebellion against her parents, both artists, and spending a decade between London, Paris, Milan, New York and Jaipur, Bolka found herself drawn inexorably back to her Anatolian heritage.

Before long, she was creating a collection of dresses embroidered with protective talismans in metal thread, followed by objects for a home that could travel with her. Not so much objects as imagined worlds to inhabit. Whimsical talismans for people who carry home within themselves.

Alongside her work in designing objects of meaning, she writes stories and essays inspired by spiritual landscapes, forgotten traditions, and the places that have shaped her, from Istanbul to Varanasi.

Her pieces draw on myth, memory, folklore, and personal ritual, inviting the wearer into a narrative of becoming. Contemporary talismans that carry with them a quiet sense of warmth, protection, and home.