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The Turkish Tile Art, which carries the Anatolian civilization to our homes like a cultural heritage with historical forms and subtleties, has a centuries-old history in the lands of Kütahya and Iznik, which are accepted as their homeland. Tile, which is one of the traditional Turkish arts, is generally used in architectural structures, mosques, mansions. It is a ceramic product used in interior and exterior decorations of palaces, fountains, tombs and similar structures. Our tiles are divided into two types.
1- Wall tiles, this genre, which the westerners call Tile-Art, our ancients called Kasi.
2. This type of plate called Evani consists of vases, cups, bowls, jugs, glasses and similar ceramic products. We still call this type using ceramics.
Since ancient times, the Turks preferred to decorate their buildings with tiles.
Especially the Karakhanids (955), who founded the first Muslim Turkish State that accepted Islam, started to decorate their shrines with tiles. The tradition of tile decoration, which started to be seen in buildings belonging to the period, shows that the Turkish Tile Art has a history of over a thousand years.
This preference became a tradition in the Great Seljuks and Anatolian Seljuks and continued later in the Ottoman period. Seljuks adorned many mosques, madrasas, caravanserais, palaces, tombs and similar works they built in the places they dominated with tiles.To briefly mention the characteristics of Seljuk tiles, they are in square or rectangular, hexagonal shapes and one face is blue, dark blue, earth yellow We can say that they were painted and baked in colors mixed with glaze such as turquoise, black and brown, and they were ornaments made in the form of mosaics applied on plaster or khorasan mortar. Kufi style scripts and rumi motifs were added to this mosaic technique, which was developed over time. Turkish tile art, which developed in historical periods, reached its peak with Iznik and Kütahya tiles in the 16th century.
Especially as a result of archaeological excavations and researches in Kütahya, which was known as KOTIAEION in ancient times, it has been proved that ceramics have been produced in Kütahya since ancient times.
The transition to new techniques in Turkish tile art has been possible by researching and applying new production techniques and possibilities that will meet the ever-increasing demand in a shorter time without taking back form and art taste and competence.
1- Wall tiles, this genre, which the westerners call Tile-Art, our ancients called Kasi.
2. This type of plate called Evani consists of vases, cups, bowls, jugs, glasses and similar ceramic products. We still call this type using ceramics.
Since ancient times, the Turks preferred to decorate their buildings with tiles.
Especially the Karakhanids (955), who founded the first Muslim Turkish State that accepted Islam, started to decorate their shrines with tiles. The tradition of tile decoration, which started to be seen in buildings belonging to the period, shows that the Turkish Tile Art has a history of over a thousand years.
This preference became a tradition in the Great Seljuks and Anatolian Seljuks and continued later in the Ottoman period. Seljuks adorned many mosques, madrasas, caravanserais, palaces, tombs and similar works they built in the places they dominated with tiles.To briefly mention the characteristics of Seljuk tiles, they are in square or rectangular, hexagonal shapes and one face is blue, dark blue, earth yellow We can say that they were painted and baked in colors mixed with glaze such as turquoise, black and brown, and they were ornaments made in the form of mosaics applied on plaster or khorasan mortar. Kufi style scripts and rumi motifs were added to this mosaic technique, which was developed over time. Turkish tile art, which developed in historical periods, reached its peak with Iznik and Kütahya tiles in the 16th century.
Especially as a result of archaeological excavations and researches in Kütahya, which was known as KOTIAEION in ancient times, it has been proved that ceramics have been produced in Kütahya since ancient times.
The transition to new techniques in Turkish tile art has been possible by researching and applying new production techniques and possibilities that will meet the ever-increasing demand in a shorter time without taking back form and art taste and competence.
