Abstract
Seljuk Turks who began to settle in Anatolia since 11th century showed a great improvement in this area by combining the weaving tradition that they carried from Central Asia, Transoxiana, Khwarezm and Iran with the savings in Anatolia (Ulgen, 1996). Turkish fabrics began to get their most characteristic motifs and a thin and a perfect weaving technique just to the end of 15th century. Reaching its highest level in 16thcentury, our fabric weaving technique improved after such a long development cycle (Suslu, 1976). All the arts had their golden age during the classical Ottoman Period. It is also the most magnificent age for 16th century Turkish fabric art. It has been effective in the selection of topic that fabrics wear out in time and design schemas on them face the danger of evanescence because of their raw materials. In this research, relevant resources have been searched and fabric figure drawings were drawn by taking photos from the museums that have classical Ottoman Period fabrics. The weaving centers, raw materials, colors and figures of classical Ottoman Period fabrics have been established and has set out the importance of the Classical Ottoman fabric art. Keywords: Fabric, Art, Classical Period
Highlights
Fabric weaving is one of the oldest arts that has appeared according the results of people related with protecting of body, clothing or dressing according seasons (Özen, 1980)
Seljuk Turks who has settled in Anatolia since the beginning of eleventh century, has shown a big achievement in this area by connecting the weaving tradition with Iran, Maveraunnehir and Khwarezm thanks to accumulations of Anatolia
It has been known that cotton and woolen fabrics gained fame in weaving centers that were available during Seljuk period (Ülgen, 1996)
Summary
Fabric weaving is one of the oldest arts that has appeared according the results of people related with protecting of body, clothing or dressing according seasons (Özen, 1980). It has been known that cotton and woolen fabrics gained fame in weaving centers that were available during Seljuk period (Ülgen, 1996). The fabrics that have come from Anotolian Seljuk to our age are little but they can show the superiority of fabric art related with that period. There are lots of documentaries that can show the beauty of Seljuk’s fabrics. Pilgrims can mention good things about Seljuk’s fabrics. There is information about gold wire woven silk fabrics, and they had been sent to other statesmen and rich people in society by Sultans of Seljuk of courser as a gift (Önder, 1993)
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