Kütahya Çiniciliğinde Değişen ve Yok Olan Üretim Yöntemleri

Özet

Serving to the purpose of making the life easier and more qualified, science and technology have begunto directly affect the life, culture and art perception of humanity, particularly after the industrialization, andsometimes caused to extinction or alteration of various traditional values. Although today’s technologycomes forward thanks to its advantageous features such as minimizing the manufacture costs and thereforeeconomically increasing the preference of the products, the situation of that the handicrafts produced byusing traditional methods are about to vanish is also attributed to the reasons based on technology.Albeit there are some efforts in terms of preserving the art and traditional manufacture, there seems to bea very little improvement in this context due to both the obstacles encountered in training new masters andthe distanced stance of new generation to culture. In the present study, art tile production techniques wereassessed in context of evaluating the possible changes occurred parallel to the technological developmentsand also by considering the current production conditions of Kütahya art tiles which are one of the mostsignificant products of traditional Turkish handicrafts.