Product Description

Excellent quality hand-made old, new copper, brass, iron, authentic wooden and terra cotta gift products. Anatolia possesses a number of rich metal deposits. Up to now almost five hundred copper fields alone have been established here, many of which have apparently been in use since pre-historic times. The large number of artifacts which have survived from Roman and Byzantine period in Turkey indicate that metalwork was an important local craft during those periods. During the Seljuk period there were marked developments in Islamic metalwork and immediately after the foundation of the Ottoman state it appears that copper was extensively mined both in Anatolia and in the Balkans which indicates that metalwork in those region was extremely important at the time. The art of copper is still alive today in Anatolia, because of the liveliness the traditional culture has supplied. Another aspect of this liveliness is the increasing demand in copper ware of the foreign markets in recent years.