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Presentation, pp.19, 2021
Lale (tulip) is deep-rooted in Anatolian history. It has many stylistic expressions in art and craft works of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. In old houses, it is possible to see the tulip motif in many traditional crafts and art works, starting from the pattern of the garden and front entrance doors, and extending to hand-woven fabrics. Today, Lale festivals continue to be held in many cities in April-May with the arrival of the spring season in Turkey, especially in Istanbul.
Apart from describing a flower, the word tulip is adopted in our culture as an indicator of human values. Families give the name Lale to their daughters, which means that they will lead an honorable, honest and upright life.
The life story of Lale, who is the subject of the story, is also in a structure that identifies with her name.
Lale was born in Samsun in 1956. She learned to produce handicrafts from her family elders in a small village in the Green Black Sea region in the north of Turkey, 1979. The village was founded in the Republican Era and provided education in accordance with Atatürk’s definition of ideal youth. She graduated from Ankara Başkent Girls’ Technical Higher Teachers’ School as a Handicrafts Teacher. The school does not continue today.
With a love for history, she set out to learn about the past of her own lands, to examine the works of art bearing the traces of the past and to adapt them to the present.
When they produce; You may encounter images of a stone tablet or traces of a monument in museums, or you may come across a reflection of an archaeological excavation that has been sketched.