Kağıthane Municipality (Kağıthane Belediyesi) Handmade Paper Workshop

Kağıthane Belediyesi El Yapımı Kağıt Atölyesi

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İstanbul

District / Neighborhood

Kağıthane

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Kağıthane Municipality (Kağıthane Belediyesi) Handmade Paper Workshop

Description

Kağıthane took its name from the paper workshops located beside the stream at the time of the conquest of İstanbul; Evliya Çelebi's famous Seyahatname can be cited as a source on this subject. Just as Kağıthane today is a central district of İstanbul in every sense, it also hosted ancient civilizations in the past. Following the Roman and Byzantine periods, particularly during the Ottoman era, Kağıthane was a place of such beauty that it inspired poetry, while paper, one of the symbols of civilization, was produced here in hand-operated mills. As technological progress led to industrialization, handmade paper workshops closed and were replaced by paper factories engaged in mass production. With migration and urbanization, the paper factories in Kağıthane gradually moved outside the city, and production of the paper that gave the district its name ceased. As a result of research, the tradition of handmade papermaking that gave the district its name...

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