Tile Research
As part of pre-site visit to Istanbul each member of the group was given a research topic and 'Iznik Cini' (Turkish Tiles) is my chosen topic to put into a guide for others to use on the trip and as an aide to maybe influence and create some ideas. The document contains history on the tiles and thier orogins and styles.
Turkish or Ottoman tiles consist of patterns mainly because the Islamic religion does not allow representation of relisious figures, the tiles have either geometric patterns or patterns of the national flower-the Tulip.
The following document
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