CULTURAL HERITAGE AND WEAVINGS: FEMININE HISTORIC GARMENTS IN HARPOOT FROM THE NINETEEN TO THE TWENTY CENTURIES

Year 2016, Volume: 6 Issue: 13, 0 - 0, 31.01.2016

Elif Aksoy

Abstract

Feminine silk fabrics in the inventory of Elazig Ethnography and Archaeology Museum are handled in this study. Feminine fabrics belonging to 19th and 20th centuries, which are essentially the subject of the article, were investigated in the museum warehouse. For the sake of taking photographs, technical and compositional characteristics of the fabrics were thoroughly examined. The aim of this study is to introduce the textile fabrics produced in the region artistically and aesthetically, and to give information about the senses of art and the life styles of the Armenian and Turkish publics lived in Harpoot (East Anatolia) for addressed period of time. In this study, findings revealed that the ornaments on the fabric floors in the museum were formed through a method similar to Zili technique, which is a kirkitli plain weave method with three yarns system. Historical background of Harpoot region silk garments are given in order to have a better understanding of historic textiles and cultural heritage frameworks. Artefacts revealed a valuable source of information about the culture and how it expressed itself in one of the key ways of Armenian identity as a minority population in the Islamic society of Harpoot.

Keywords

Harpoot region, Silk fabrics, Museum, zili weaving

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