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“Let’s hop efor the best
Inşallah” 4 and give their
girl in marriage mind at peace.
Copper with its charming ruddiness
became pots, seethers,shallow
frying-pans, bowls, large trays, buckets,
brasiers and sometimes ibrik 5 (ewer) those
defy the years… Sometimes the copper master
included some quicksilver in copper and he revealed wide range of
ornaments with the fine motifs ot them.
Although copper, whose history in Anatolia ,the Cradle of Civilization,
goes way back to 9 th century B.C., is revealed as one of the
crafts that tends to vanish, it still saves its significance. In the past,
copper was used in doors and door decorations along with daily
used pots and pans, jewellery and helmets; but now it attracts
attention as decoratives.
Copper always had an important place in Anatolian art and
because it’s a suitable metal for decorating, it has become the
initial material of various objects. The copper that is beaten
by qualified hands appears sometimes as an elegant tray,
sometimes as a charming mirror frame or as an enlightening
object.
A Four Generations Coppersmithing Family
Kaya Kalaycı is a member of family who carries on the
coppersmithing that is not in demand any more and
that the masters can’t even find an apprentice for
them. He converted coppersmithing from being craft
in his grandfathers and fathers time into art. We listened
from Kaya Kalaycı the adventure of coppersmithing
of Kalaycı family from being craft to art
first in the showroom in Nişantaşı, then in copper
studio in Kapalıçarşı (Grand Bazaar) and we put it
down to paper.