Embroidery Embroidery is the handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as metal strips, pearls, beads, quills, and sequins. Embroidery is most often used on caps, hats, coats, blankets, dress shirts, denim, stockings, and golf shirts. Embroidery is available with a wide variety of thread or yarn color. An interesting characteristic of embroidery is that the basic techniques or stitches on surviving examples of the earliest embroidery—chain stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, running stitch, satin stitch, cross stitch—remain the fundamental techniques of hand embroidery today.

Basket Weave Basket weave is a variation of the plain weave in which yarns seem to approximate the woven look of a plaited basket. Two or more warp yarns ride over and under two or more fill yarns, giving a basket weave like texture. Sometimes checkered or plaid patterns are produced using a basket weave. Although it provides an attractive texture a fabric with this weave has a tendency towards bunching up, so it might not be as strong as plain weaves due to slippage or bunching.

Filigree The Filigree, a delicate kind of jewelry metalwork made with tiny beads or twisted threads, is one of the oldest and most important traditional arts in Midyat where it has flourished for hundreds of years. The filigree art in Midyat is also a very popular activity in terms of export. The filigree is a delicate kind of jewelry metalwork, usually of gold and silver, made with tiny beads or twisted threads, or both in combination, soldered together or to the surface of an object of the same metal and arranged in artistic motifs.There are many objects made with filigree such as bags, jewelry, trays, mirrors, vases, spoons and many more.The base and the beginning of this art springs from Mesopotamia and Egypt.

Cini (Enamelled tile making) This process involves richly decorating cearmic, tile or porcelain pieces then covering the design in a thick glaze. This style, produced most often in Iznik and Kütahya, had it's peak between the 14th and 17th centuries. Three regions in turkey are prized for their cermic production: 1. Iznik 2. Kütahya 3. Çanakkale

Miniatures Usually small in size, miniatures are typified by sumptuous ornamentation coupled with detailed elements. Particularly important to Ottoman art are the works of the Zubdat-al- Tawarikh and the artist Levnî. Elements used include the arrowpoint illumination and the marbling of paper.

Carpets & Rugs Carpet&Rug weaving hold particular importance in Anatolia and its heritage can be seen throughout the world. From 17th century Dutch genre scenes to today's museums, the kilim and rug arts span time and use.

Ebru (Water Marbling) Marbling is the art of creating colorful patterns by sprinkling and brushing color pigments on a pan of oily water and then transforming this pattern to paper. The special tools of the trade are brushes of horsehair bound to straight rose twigs, a deep tray made of unknotted pinewood, natural earth pigments, cattle gall and tragacanth. It is believed to be invented in the thirteenth century Turkistan. This decorative art then spread to China, India and Persia and Anatolia. Seljuk and Ottoman calligraphers and artists used marbling to decorate books, imperial decrees, official correspondence and documents. New forms and techniques were perfected in the process and Turkey remained the center of marbling for many centuries.

Meerschaum Meerschaum (Lületasi) is a mineral substance found only in Turkey, from which pipes and ornaments have been hand-carved since the 1700's. Meerschaum, contrary to popular belief, is not the fossilized remains of sea creatures, but a mineral: Hydrous Magnesium Silicate, it is found from 30 to 450 feet below the surface of the earth near the town of Eskisehir. Meerschaum's magnesium content provides strength while the hydrogen and oxygen contribute porosity. As one of nature's lightest and most porous substances,Meerschaum is a natural filter. This natural absorbency causes the pipe to slowly change color, eventually turning rich brown color, filtering the nicotine. As few Turks smoke pipes, they are made mostly for export.

Calligraphy Of the Ottoman arts, Calligraphy was the most important. Such mundane items as tax reports, property deeds and imperial edicts became exquisite works of art. This aptly reflects the bureaucratic nature of the empire, with its stress on writing and registering. Turkish calligraphers contributed to the development of new and more ornate styles of calligraphy. Each of the sultans had their own monogram in stylized script, called a Tugra. Sultan Ahmet III and Sultan Bayezit II were skilled calligraphers.