Çanakkale Region of Woven Hand Motifs (Form, Content, Skills)

Abstract

When History of Literature became a branch of science, it was started to search to folklor and collection, collect etnografic materials. But these materials was classified according to their formal characteristic. So that the background of between form and content couldn’t be done. The cause of coming into being of artistic objects and for what reason these objects is used also meanings which is dedicated by the users and creaters raised a new idea for these artistic objects. Not only the form but also the content of handmade woven tissves should be sifted according to folklor and should be consolidated with the help of source. In facts which are arised as “culturel symptoms” when the patterns are accepted as folkloric, which is in woven tissves in Çanakkale reflect a legend, a belief or fictitious approach. Some patterns such as “Turnalı”, “Çarıklı Elek”, “Elekli”, “Okulu” were usually used in woven tissves and these patterns have used by the Nomad and Turkoman who have been living at the west of Anatolia from 15. century without any changes. In fact the weavers in this environs are Bektaşi so “İnce Su” and “Ejder”the belief of shamanism. These patterns are usually in geometrical style but it is possible to see traces of ancient cultures. With the help of these informations when the locol woven tissves are sifted, these tissves and with the patterns on them give does about the social life. So that monuments take part in history according to their form and content as work of art which will be able to seen in the future.