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- Title
DÜZ DOKUMALARDA NAZAR İNANCI VE GÖZ MOTİFİ.
- Authors
ETİKAN, Sema; KILIÇARSLAN, Hande
- Abstract
Rug weaving has been a tool of passing on events of Anatolian People's daily life such as birth, death, separation, reunion, marriage and natural disasters. The weavers, who symbolize all of the events of their life, have found a way to express themselves by reflecting them on their weave. One of the beliefs, which take important places in Anatolia is the evil eye belief. Bad consequences rising from the looks of somebody full of grudge, hate, jealousy is called misfortune from evil eye. Evil eye, which is seen as the primary cause of misfortunes is thought to affect everything that is beautiful and good. Therefore as protection from the evil eye, an object called the evil eye bead has been developed, and in weavings, symbols such as amulets, charms, hooks etc. are used in this purpose. The most important of these symbols is the "eye". According to the belief, the easiest way to protect against the evil eye, In other words the misfortune from the eye is the "eye". Only the eye prevents the harmful effects of the eye. The eye motif has taken place in weaves mostly in geometric forms, such as square, triangle or pentagon.
- Subjects
TURKEY; WEAVING; EYE in art; EVIL eye in art; RUGS; TURKISH arts
- Publication
Art-E, 2012, Vol 5, Issue 10, p103
- ISSN
1308-2698
- Publication type
Article