HANDICRAFTS IN MARDİN                                                                    

Year history of the city of Mardin, with hurricane ... In a time before the story began, the legend of the dominance or the magnificence of the concrete form ...

Mardin, of stories within stories, within the time schedule in the land of the amalgam has been the cradle of handicrafts.

Since the old ages, the test-pot-pot, smithery, Copper, Kalaycılık, Jewelry, Gümüşçülük, (Silver), needle lace, Midyat Hand Embroidery, the seed of the needle, quilting, Oyacılık, painting (Sibbeğ), Dericilik (Debbeğ), Sabunculuk, weaving , Shawl ü pervert (The special fabric is woven), Kilimcilik, Carpets (wool and silk). Semercilik, Keçecilik, wood carving (intarsia), Sedef processing, Halburculuk (Gürgen tree was used). Stone carving, handicrafts are made from the past until today. Some of them unfortunately, is about to disappear.

STONE PROCESSING

Mardin also received a large amount of stone from the quarry, after being processed at the hands of masters of the house, do kasır and religious motifs and replaces the original. Doors, windows environment, columns, arches and stonework, such as the potter is adorned with fine examples.

SILVER AND GOLD

Silver in silver or gold wire on the board opened the buried cavities and is the decoration. Tel gold and silver brought into the loop cross-stitch work by grace and ornament ornament Mardin Center handicrafts and fine goods. Elsewhere it is not possible to see this art.