Traditional Turkish Handicrafts
HISTORY
There are five basic categories of traditional Turkish handicrafts that have been practiced in Anatolia for nearly a millennium. These are:
· Textile-weaving
· Tiles,and ceramics
· Wood and stone carving
· Metalworking
· Calligraphy and book-related arts
Thuluth Script
Thuluth Script was first formulated in the 7th century AD during the Umayyad caliphate, but it did not develop fully until the late 9th century AD. The name means ‘a third’ — perhaps because of the proportion of straight lines to curves, or perhaps because the script was a third the size of another popular […]
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