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Each of amazing eye-catching jewelery ornaments,
which decorate the shopwindows, attracts enthusiasts.
Jewelery, which became a growing industry
all over the world with it’s market volume, special
designs are always favourite. The specially prepared
design allows the person the privilege of being different
from everyone. Designers manipulating in
this area are in a race to be forward than other collegues.
Lori Sinanoglu is also designer who draws
attention with jewelery ornaments by using ebony
and has a special name among her colleques. And
we visited young designer in his department store
in Nişantaşı whose some parts are used as exhibition
halls and some parts as workshop.
Made A Difference In The Design With Ebony
Lori Sinanoglu is designer, combines ebony’s naturalness
and diamond’s unique glow. We asked the
young designer for telling how she started
designing jewelery. Sinanoglu
graduated from Istituto
Europeo di Design’s Department
of jewelery
design in 2008, that
is in Italy's fashion
capital Milan. After
finishing school, she
returned to Istanbul
and began to look for
ways of doing different
things in the area where
she graduated. "One day
while visiting the Grand Bazaar
workshops, I told a master that I wanted to find
something different. The master told me ‘’Let’s
show you a material, perhaps it benefits your
business.’’ She showed me a tiny piece of ebony
wood. I also brought and showed it to Mr. Aleksan
(She means her uncle. who was a goldsmith caste
in the Grand Bazaar at that time). Because while
doing something that is very important whether
it’s healthy or not, first we wanted to try and see
how it would be when we work with this material
Sinanoglu tells his story about meeting ebony
tree as ‘’After we had decided that’s healthy, we
started producing.’’
Eliminates Poison, Good for Evil Eye
The ebony tree,which grows in tropical areas and
is a very durable material, is shaped by hand in Lori
Sinanoglu’s designs. According to his narratives,
ebony tree’s very dark-brown innermost core part
is quite hard and has the advantage to
get polished well. Because of this
reason, it was regarded as very
valuable since ancient times.
It’s a rumor that kings used
scepters,and drank their
drinks with containers
made of ebony wood
with the belief it eliminates
poison. In ancient
times, people believed
that carrying a small
part of the ebony tree as
amulet, drives out the neg-
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