Abstract:

The foundations of the clothing culture of the Ottoman Empire are our ancestors who lived in Central Asia. In the Ottoman Empire. Until the century, shalvar, indoor shirt, entari, kaftan and races have been used as clothing products. Among the most important clothes of the Ottoman clothes are captains and entars. In the Ottoman Empire, the Kaftans had seen a uniform that the Padişah used for their working life. The clothes, which are called Craftan and used as uniforms, are primarily decorated as palace clothes and have different textile characteristics. The decorations and textile characteristics of the captains may show changes according to the user. In the Topkapı Palace Museum there is a large collection of padişah captains. There is not much of this collection that reaches today. In addition to being a product of clothing, the captains also had characteristics that represented the power and reputation of the Empire. The Ottoman Padişah captains carried symbolic values in terms of their valuable fabric, accessories, patterns, textures and motivation characteristics. In the Padişah clothes, the forces represented by the sultan were symbolized as fabric patterns in the heads. In touched fabric, plant motifs have been the most commonly used type of motifs. The plant motives have created compositions alone or with other motives. Rumi, palm, hatâi, lotus, laule, karanfil, symbol, rose, nar, apple, saze shell, Turkish rococo, chinar leaf, chinar leaf, cossalak, tree and circle are the most important plant motives. The signs and symbols of the textures and decorations of some captains and shorts are understood from the writings on which a shirt can only be processed in three or four years. It is believed that the meanings and codes marked by the letters and numbers on these shorts they wear to protect their people, to win in the war, to protect against the Nazareth and to find healing will keep the light into the history of the Ottoman Empire and the mystery of many events will be solved. In this study, information has been given about the Ottoman Padişah captains and codes as a symbolic value in terms of the texture and motivation characteristics. Technical characteristics of textile documents, country, city, materials and techniques are named by the captains evaluated through the padişah clothes. The textile and motivation characteristics of the weapons used in the captains, the symbolic characteristics of the padişah captains touched in the thick and encrypted manner, how the forces represented by the sultan were symbolized as weapons patterns in the captains, the protective and healing characteristics of the Ottoman padişah from various situations such as the enemy, the Nazar, how profound the symbols on the shorts prepared with special thick and encrypted lines were described and imagined.

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