报告题目：Cultural Heritage Pearl and Perl-Workmanship Implementation Processes in Turkey: From the Past to Present
报告时间：2016年3月22日
报告地点：尼泊尔加德满都 尼泊尔学院
报告嘉宾：Mehmet YÜKSEL，土耳其穆拉·希奇·科克曼大学木材工程与技术学院

摘要：
The objective of this study was to investigate pearl-workmanship manufacture processes and to observe past and present situation with furniture production. For this purpose, the history of this art craft is reviewd and production process of pearl-workmanship is investigated step by step. First samples of pearl-workmanship were made in the 15th and 17th centuries Ottoman empire. The pearl-workmanship motifs were generally used on the surface of different furniture belong to Seljuk and Ottoman periods. This tradition known as the "pearl-workmanship", was gradually obsolete by the end of the 18th century. Till today valuable pearl-workmanship furniture was used over the lengthy time segment encompassing the Ottoman period. Contrarily, architectural elements of religious structures dating from the Ottoman period, as well as pearl-workmanship furniture used in these buildings, are adequate in number to give a good idea of Turkish pearl-work. Particularly furniture, doors and pulpits of mosques, Quran stands, decoration stuff and lecterns display highly advanced pearl-workmanship.

To make pearl-workmanship furniture, the following steps should be folowed: first designing a motif, which is then transferred to the surface of furniture. After that the surface of furniture is carved to place each pearl; such pearls are pasted into the cavities and the final process is polishing. The Turkish history shows that pearlwork furniture was highly valued in the society and used for a long time.  

It is a fact that pearl-work developed following the immigration of the Turks to Anatolia, from 15th until 17th century a phenomenon in which the influence of geography and the cultural surroundings can not be refused. Although pearl-wormanship has lost popularity at the end of 18th century, itwas renewed in the 19th century. Today pearl-workmanship is developed in a few cities in Turkey. This production is very important for pearl-workmanship art for it is contribute significantly to the world economy.  

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