Traditional handicrafts continue to exist today as unique cultural heritages from the thousands of years of history of Anatolia. Traditional handicrafts, which were once the most popular professions and in which craftsmen both practiced their art and made it their profession, continue today, and many of them have been forgotten.CalligraphyCalligraphy is one of the most […]

Before answering the question of what is a calligraphy pen, the question of what is calligraphy should be answered. In its shortest definition, calligraphy is an artistically valuable type of writing created with Arabic letters. It is generally very popular in Islamic geography, it cannot be said that it has gained an artistic quality in […]

Traditional ebru art is a painting or decorative art performed by spreading patterns created by dropping paints on water and then transferring them to a surface and fixing them. The word ebru is derived from the Arabic word “ebir” meaning “water”. Ebru art is a decorative technique that has survived from the Ottoman period to […]

The art of illumination means to gild, to decorate with gold in the dictionary and is one of the traditional Turkish-Islamic decorative arts. In many periods of Turkish history, especially in the Ottoman period; the zahriye, title page, beginning of the sura, and the epigraph sections of handwritten books; the stops, seats, line breaks, inner […]

Ebru art, whose roots date back to the 10th century, became one of the most important aesthetic arts during the Ottoman period. Ebru art, which progresses through the master-apprentice relationship and has survived to the present day, was frequently used on the covers of hardcover books and to decorate the inside during the Ottoman period. […]

Traditional Turkish arts are the general name given to the types of art that constitute a part of our culture. Calligraphy and illumination come first among these arts. While some of these arts originate from the pre-Islamic period, others have developed in parallel with Islam. These branches of art, which experienced their golden age during […]

Nepal paper is a type of paper that dates back to the 12th century and is one of the types of handmade paper used since then. Nepal paper is the most preferred type of paper in traditional arts and is famous for being quite durable. If you are involved in traditional arts, trying to choose […]

The word Stamp in Turkish means; ball, ball, marble, seashell, a type of seashell used in paper polishing.In the past, since it was not possible to produce the surface of the papers produced in paper mills in a flat and smooth manner where the pen and brush could move easily, the stamping process was discovered […]

Banana paper is a type of paper produced from banana plant peel or banana peel fibers. Paper produced from banana fibers has a lower density, higher stiffness, higher sustainability, renewability and higher tensile strength compared to traditional paper. These properties of banana paper are due to the high amounts of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin in […]