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Ebru, Turkish Art of Marbling

Ebru, Turkish Art of Marbling

Ebru is one of the most famous arts in Turkey. It depends on sprinkling and brushing color pigments onto a pan of oily water and then transferring floating patterns and drawings to paper.
Ebru art is used in all forms of decoration, and its craftsmen pass on their acquired knowledge and skills from generation to generation.
Ebru, Turkish Art of Marbling was inscribed in 2014 on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in Turkey.
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Ebru, Turkish Art of Marbling

Date of Inscription

2014