ottoman fashion

A beautiful collection of Ottoman ladies' clothing was on display at the Yakutiye Medresi in Erzurum. I love learning about the fashions of bygone eras, and the colours and patterns of the fabrics and embroidery made me swoon!



Imagine the time and care it took to create such details, and how lovely the ladies looked! When back in Istanbul, I might need to revisit the Sadberk Hanım Museum in my old stomping ground, Büyükdere, which has an outstanding collection of Ottoman women's clothing and a current exhibit on shoes.

everything's better with a pigeon

ottoman inspired

These are my entries in Jan Allsopp's Moleskine for Moly-X48. I was inspired by Ottoman textile patterns and fashion, taking some traditional motifs and putting a little twist on them. I've been having a lot of fun creating stories for my Moly-X48 entries— the use of the pocket sketchbook Moleskine instead of the Japanese folding Moleskine has been great for this, I can tell a story over three spreads. Check out my other Moly-X48 stories here.

I think on the second spread I am going to outline the backgound tulips in black— I originally didn't because I wanted her spread to be different somehow, but when I see them all together now, I feel that it needs to be outlined. Hm...
Ok. I outlined the background tulips in black. I do like it better this way.