Textile artist Ayla Salman Goruney shows her work in Kanazawa and Kyoto

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Textile artist Ayla Salman Goruney shows her work in Kanazawa and Kyoto

Turkish Daily News

Istanbul - The future of historical cities with strong craft
traditions was discussed at the "Reactivating Cities for Arts and
Crafts I. International Conference" which was held between 3 - 8
September 1997 in Kanazawa, Japan. Turkey was represented by Prof. Dr.
Metin Sozen, chairman of Cekul Vakfi and by the textile artist, Prof.
Dr. Ayla Salman Goruney at the conference.

Among the artists from Kanazawa who exhibited their works in various
branches of art and design, Ayla Salman exhibited works entitled
"Peace Flower", "Kanazawa" and an "Istanbul" city emblem which she had
woven specially for this exhibition; the weavings, "Bird" and "Apple
Flower and its Fruit" were inspired from from 16th Century Ottoman
art. She also displayed two miniature-sized classic carpet looms with
"Istanbul" written on one and a scene of the Blue Mosque visible on
the other. A video about the artist, shot by Tuhfe Tezel, was also
shown.

At a workshop during the exhibition, Goruney taught her guests how to
weave continuous panels and flat-woven tapestries with natural hemp
and cotton on a shaft weaving loom and how to knit cords with a knot
technique usingmaterials she brought from Turkey. She gave each guest
postcards bearing photos of her weavings and Turkish delight in an
Iznik tile pot.

[INLINE] All the international participants applauded when the woven
panels with ther Kanazawa and Istanbul city emblems and the tiny
carpet loom were presented to Mayor Tammotsu Yamade, who stated he
would display the gifts in the reception hall. Goruney also presented
the Hiroshima Museum with her "Bird" motif weaving and a Ruhi Su tape
which includes the poem that Nazim Hikmet wrote for the children of
Hiroshima called "Children, Fish, Emigrations".

The Turkish team had a very positive exchange of ideas about Prof. Dr.
Metin Sozen's "traditional arts and continuity" concepts when they
visited the workshops of the revered artist Prof. Mamoru Nakagawa, an
instructor at the Kanazawa Fine Arts University and the kimono artist
Kunihiko Moriguchi in Kyoto.

Ayla Salman visited the industrial weaving and silk and wool gobelin
hand-weaving workhops of Kawashima (Orimono) Textile Company in Kyoto
and [INLINE] the weaving school and museum, an idea which she hopes
will some day be implemented in Turkey as an adjunct to the textile
sector and relevant institutions, and said later that her meetings and
observations among the artists and weavers was very productive.

As a result of her teachers' character, Ayla Salman wishes it to be
known that she sent the "1997 Kanazawa Arts and Crafts Competition"
catalogue to the libraries of Marmara, Mimar Sinan, Bursa Uludag,
Eskisehir Anadolu and Izmir Dokuz Eylul Universities' fine arts
faculties to encourage our young artists to participate in similar
types of international competitions. She says she is ready to share
her observations, the experiments with textile companies and
associations, and that she would like to show documents like the video
tape made by the Kawashima Textile Company.

Prof. Dr. Ayla Salman Goruney is an instructor at the Marmara
University Fine Arts Faculty and the head of the weaving art branch of
the same department. She is a textile artist who produces original
weavings in her private weaving workshop.
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