Binlerce yıllık kültür ve sanat geçmişi olan Türk sanatında dokumaların yeri önemi oldukça büyüktür. El dokuma literatüründe önemli bir yere sahip örneklerinden birisi de seccadelerdir. İslamiyet ile sanatına dahil olan; seccade, namazlağ yada namazlık gibi isimlerle anılan bu dokumalar, Anadolu insanı için dini nitelikler taşıyan yaygılardır.
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The design of geotextile containers for dewatering applications typically requires good retention of the confined fill material solids. This becomes difficult to achieve when the fill material is fine grained and the pore openings are large. Furthermore, the proper retention becomes critical if the confined material is contaminated. Fly ash is one of the fine-grained geomaterials that exhibit b...

The implementation and evaluation of a high fidelity material model for dry fabrics is the main objective of this paper. Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerators (IADs) and other airinflated structures quite often utilize woven fabrics due to their lightweight and high loading carrying capabilities. Design optimization of these inflated structures relies on a detailed understanding of the woven fabr...

1. introduction handicrafts as the most important item of iran historical identity and a cause for economic growth and development in the modern world show the tribal and native specifications this land. handicrafts have played an effective role in cultural changes from long years ago. in many of iranian cities and rural districts handicrafts are produced and hand-woven carpets are the most imp...

This paper describes two preliminary experiments concerned with the construction of a robot head. The initial design and research is aimed at producing a system with two cameras and two microphones on a system capable of operating with the same degrees of freedom and reflex times as its biological counterpart. Whilst the primary goal of the project is develop an anthropomorphic system with the ...

THEWORK OF DIVERSITY IN LIBRARIES BEGINS at the crossroad where superiority, inaction, and denial become intolerable. Yet in working toward true diversity, we work without the familiar construct of a mainstream. We respond to, or ignore, repetitive critique of being too exclusive or not inclusive enough. We decide whether it is appropriate to quantify the existence of a people or to trust what ...