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Ottoman Art from Khalili Collection 8/01

- tugras - imperial signatures - each Ottoman
sultan had hsi own monogram or turgras, a
stamp of imperial authority
- Koran - compiled + written down in 651
- a dervish or sufi is a Muslim mystic
- often the Koran is divided into 60 seperately
bound parts so that itcan be read in its
entirety in 30 days.
- gold ink + pigment on laid paper
- gold ink + pigment on wove paper watermarked
- the direction of Mecca (called the kiblah)
is marked on the wall by a niche 9called its
mihrab) which is often elaborately decorated
- the central = most venerated art of Islam
is calligraphy

wove style of mould - the beaten fibers were
poured upon the mould + the moist sheet left to dry
upon it.
laid type of mould dipped into the vat of
suspended fibres. The invention of this type
of mould was one of the great advancements in
papermaking as from it the sheets could be
removed immediately after forming + emabled
the artisan to form sheets continually upon the
same mould.

- wove paper - paper which has a smooth surface
+ does not show any laid lines.
- only became common by the end of the
18th C.