He is 89 years old. He is working as a shoe mender in İskilip for 74 years. His father forced him to return İskilip when he was living in the city at a young age. It took him a year in İskilip to earn the amount which he could win at the city in a month. Thus, he still expostulates on his father…
Mehmet Usta
Uncle Mehmet from Iskilip... From Kadir Tahtacı's lens...
- 13.11.2016
- Emre Bostancı
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Forging is such a charming craft that it can notify the guest only with the sound of the knob. Which best news was announced by the eternal love of walnut door and iron knob in these vast lands of Anatolia, who knows? Whenever the door was knocked, who asks which people were excited or which ones became anxious? For centuries, the sound of the knob has echoed in the stone sidewalks of Safranbolu. Such that, these sounds are the masterpiece of the veteran Usta.
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There are 4 layers here: First, the oldest skills of Eastern creativity; Second, old and distinguished works of once-called "lonca" craftsmen's organisations; Third, latest designs created by contemporary desires and technology; Fourth, most valuable raw materials of all times: gold, silver, diamond and more"*
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