AN INVESTIGATION OF MOTIF, PATTERN AND COMPOSITION FEATURES OF KÜTAHYA WOMEN CEPKENS WITH SNAKE MOTIF
YILAN MOTİFLİ KÜTAHYA KADIN CEPKENLERİNİN MOTİF, DESEN VE KOMPOZİSYON ÖZELLİKLERİNİN İNCELENMESİ
Abstract
Garments are products that show the characteristics of an era, a country, a community, or a person. The garments, created with patience and skill, reflect the intricacies of the Anatolian people, their spirit, their understanding of life, their traditions. These feelings are sometimes described by line, sometimes by color, sometimes by symbolic language in motifs. In this study, motif, pattern and composition characteristics of Kütahya female cepkens with snake motif were examined. In this context, the historical development of the province of Kütahya, geographical and social position, economic, educational and cultural situations, Kütahya women's cepkens and symbolic meanings of motifs were investigated. In addition, Kütahya women's cepkens with snake motifs were investigated, photographs of the clothes were taken with the permission of the owners of the clothes; the patterns of the clothes were drawn vectorially. Four cepkens’ colour, ornamentation, motif, pattern, composition and form characteristics were determined. The universe of the research consists of Kütahya and the sample consists of four cepken garments found from the province of Kütahya.Recommendations have been developed based on the results optanied in the research.
Keywords
Kütahya Women Cepkens, Snake, Motif, Pattern, Composition
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