Abstract:

Patience is needed for the arts like carpet-rug, ceramic, tile art, calligraphy, gilding, miniature, marbling that can be considered among Turkish-Islamic arts and products of a tradition from past to present. Patience is a trait recommended and praised in verses and hadiths for the spiritual development of mankind. Between the hustle and bustle of everyday life, patience is the condition that people consciously choose the acts of stopping and slowing down. Patience is the moment that sheltering in trust occurs by doing the things to be done which blooms the love and hope. The best example of this condition among traditional arts is marbling. Marbling is close to humans by nature and consists of soil and water. It is humble and dervish-like art and teaches patience to mankind at every stage of life. There is patience at every stage of the marbling from the preparation of the tragacanth to the crushing of the paint, from the boiling of the gall to the wrapping of the brush. In traditional Turkish-Islamic arts which is usually learnt in master-apprentice relationship, the reflections of being respectful, compassionate, and patient to the master, material, and the art itself are seen in marbling. In today's world where haste, impatience, and such things are becoming more and more common, one of the best ways to learn patience is to engage in the art, especially in marbling. The study aims to know marbling - one of the traditional Turkish-Islamic arts- in the context of the relationship between art and patience, to comprehend the relationship between patience and marbling, and to realize the contributions of marbling to the patience learning. During the study, the literature has been reviewed, marbling practices have been made, the findings have been examined and the results have been evaluated.

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