CUERDA SECA TECHNICAL USED IN CINI ART
CINI SANATINDA KULLANILAN BOLMELI TEKNIK (CUERDA SECA)

Author : Atilla Cengiz KILIÇ -- Ayşen ÇAM
Number of pages : 100-110

Abstract

Turkish tile art has various forms, color, motives and techniques. This art which possesses unique featuers each period has taken attention of many reseaches and has been subject to several researches. However; these researches generally have been comfined to form, pattern and style. Technological information about the making techniques of these tiles has not been mentioned much. Technological information is quite important especially fort he tiles thay are made with cuerda seca (dry cord) to be analyzed correctly. Cuerda seca which was applied especially at the beginning of Ottoman (Iznik) tile art can be considered as the start of the underglaze tiles which developed at later periods. This technique left its placeto under glaze tiles at later periods which are more easy to be applied.

Keywords

Tile, Cuerda seca

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