Türkiye · Calligraphy; Paper craft; Ottoman heritage
Türk Hat Sanatı — Osmanlı Hattatlık Geleneği
The Turkish hat sanatı (calligraphy art) tradition — the Ottoman Islamic calligraphy tradition using the specific reed pen (kamış kalem) cut to the hattat's personal specifications, writing in the six classical scripts (sülüs, nesih, muhakkak, reyhani, rika, tevki) in the specific Ottoman protocol of ink preparation, reed pen cutting, and paper preparation. The Turkish hattat reads the correct reed pen cut quality through a press-and-spread assessment — pressing the newly cut pen nib on paper and reading the specific ink spread that indicates correct nib width and flexibility.
Risk level: Stable · UNESCO ICH 2021 — Turkish calligraphy (hat sanatı); one of the most recently inscribed Turkish UNESCO ICH in the CRAFT archive
The Turkish Karagöz shadow puppet theater tradition — the Ottoman source tradition from which the Greek Karagiozis (CRAFT-1554) was adapted; the making of the flat jointed leather tasvir (figures) and the hayalci performance tradition that…
The Gaziantep coppersmithing tradition — the production of the distinctive Southern Turkish hammered copper objects (trays, pots, ewers, and decorative objects) in the historic bakır çarşısı (copper market) of Gaziantep, whose specific…
The Bursa silk weaving tradition — the production of the imperial Ottoman luxury textiles (kemha, seraser, çatma) in the Ottoman silk capital of Bursa, whose specific combination of silk, gold thread, and complex compound weave structures…
The Turkish Aegean olive oil tradition — the production of the distinctive Turkish early-harvest extra virgin olive oil from the Aegean coast olive groves (particularly the Ayvalık region) using the specific Ayvalık and Memecik olive…
The Beykoz glass blowing tradition of Istanbul — the production of the distinctive Ottoman glass (particularly the çeşm-i bülbül — 'nightingale eye' spiral-decorated blown glass) at the Imperial Beykoz glass factory on the Bosphorus, whose…
The Çanakkale earthenware tradition — the production of the distinctive Northwest Turkish reddish-brown earthenware vessels and plates from the Çanakkale region on the Dardanelles, whose characteristic simple slip-painted vocabulary (fish,…
Pathein hti (ထီး — 'umbrella/parasol') is the traditional paper umbrella making tradition of Pathein (Bassein) in Ayeyarwady Region — Myanmar's primary umbrella-making center for over 200 years.
Woodblock-printed popular images produced in Épinal since 1796, hand-colored by stencil (pochoir) in vivid flat colors.
The Łowicz wycinanki tradition — the making of the distinctive multi-layered colored paper cut decorations of the Łowicz region of Mazovia, whose characteristic circular (gwiazda — star) and cockerel (kogutek) forms in vivid contrasting…
Dongba paper is the handmade paper of the Naxi people of Lijiang, Yunnan — used exclusively for writing Dongba pictographic script, the only pictographic writing system still in active use in the world.
Chinese paper effigy making (zhi zha) is the craft of constructing three-dimensional paper objects — houses, cars, electronic devices, clothing, food, luxury goods — to be burned as offerings for the deceased in Chinese Taoist and Buddhist…
The making of three-dimensional paper objects on a bamboo frame, mounted with colored paper or silk and then painted and decorated.