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Tile is
a one face glazed coating substance which is decorated with coloured
patterns and decals. Underglaze technique is used while making our
tiles. It is beleived that tile art has been started in the Middle
East and from there moved to Anatolia and to Europe. Asur, Iran,
Middle East Turks and Egyptians have used tiles-which is a branch of
Fine Arts now - to decorate buildings and inscriptions. At the ages of
Selcuklu and Ottoman Empire, in some places in Anatolia tile
production have been made. So many tile samples from the ages of
Selcuklu Empire glazed in firuze (turquoise), gren, cobalt blue, Brown
and transparent colors can be seen.
It is
very amazing improvement of the technique –in the 16th century- to
apply these seven colors under glaze : turquoise, blue, a kind of dark
green, red, light cobalt, white and sometimes black. |
