Özet:

Serving to the purpose of making the life easier and more qualified, science and technology have begun to directly affect the life, culture and art perception of humanity, particularly after the industrialization, and sometimes caused to extinction or alteration of various traditional values. Although today’s technology comes forward thanks to its advantageous features such as minimizing the manufacture costs and therefore economically increasing the preference of the products, the situation of that the handicrafts produced by using traditional methods are about to vanish is also attributed to the reasons based on technology. Albeit there are some efforts in terms of preserving the art and traditional manufacture, there seems to be a very little improvement in this context due to both the obstacles encountered in training new masters and the distanced stance of new generation to culture. In the present study, art tile production techniques were assessed in context of evaluating the possible changes occurred parallel to the technological developments and also by considering the current production conditions of Kütahya art tiles which are one of the most significant products of traditional Turkish handicrafts.

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