Handicrafts Motifs’ Reflection in Folksay in Konya Region

Turkish folk culture which incorporates material and spiritual concepts like history, belief, language, philosophy, art which continually has a continually developing dynamic structure. Language which enables social and cultural communication within this structure is a living treasure which feeds on customs and traditions of the people’s lifestyle and reaches to literary relish, thinking and eloquence and which symbolically lives in varieties local handicrafts. When Turkish handicraft history is reviewed, Konya region stands out with its rich accumulation and cultural structure. Knitting and embroidery which can be regarded among Konya folk plastic arts includes a rich vocabulary about the motifs which people coined with * Yrd. Doç. Dr., Selçuk Ü. Mesleki Eğitim Fak. El Sanatları Eğitimi Böl. E-mail: eminenas@gmail.com