SÜSLEYİCİ BİR GEREÇ OLARAK DÜĞME VE OSMANLI DÖNEMİNDE KULLANILAN ÖRME DÜĞMELER ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME
BUTTON AS AN ORNAMENTAL AND AN INVESTIGATION ON KNITTED BUTTONS USED IN THE OTTOMAN PERIOD

Summary/Abstract: It is known that buttons has been used since ancient times as one of the accessories completing the garment. In the past, button was an element that is designed and produced carefully, prepared with special stones or valuable metals such as gold and silver, completing the worn garments, determining the status of the person wearing it and showing one’s character not only appearance. The buttons on the clothes worn by people are accepted as an indicator of the wearer's wealth and authority not a simple means of hooks. As in many civilizations throughout history, attention has been paid for the construction of the button during Ottoman period. Especially in Ottoman Palace that is a center that directs the apparel, diamonds, rubies, turquoise, jade and emerald buttons were used on the clothes of people representing the power of wealth that was sewn by precious fabric Among these ones, buttons created by weaving thin wires taken from gold and silver are quite remarkable. These buttons are often used on characteristic clothes of the period such as suits jacket, bindallı, three skirts. Buttons that are round shaped or in the form of drops were created by a special weaving technique using sim or a braid on a filler prepared by paper.

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