Philographic painting representing the crumbs tower

A hand-made painting representing a woman carrying her child, made of philographic art, and this art is using threads and nails instead of pens and papers. Philographic art is one of the arts that appeared in the Ottoman era. The most famous tales about its construction is that there was a sultan who loved his daughter very much. A dream, which means that on her 18th birthday she will be bitten by a snake and take her life .
As soon as he woke up, he removed his daughter from dry land to protect her, as he blocked part of the Bosphorus, and built a tower for her in the middle of the strait, to protect her from any snake. . And the Sultan’s daughter received a gift, a basket full of fruit, in which a snake was hiding, which infiltrated her and bit the girl and killed her , and because of her father’s grief for her, the place was named “The Girl’s Tower”, so that visitors to the tower remember the lesson from this story that there is no escape from fate.

The most important advantages

• Handmade of wood, fabric, nails and thread

• Made by the best craftsmen

• Made in the Republic of Turkey in Gaziantep

Product Sizes

• Height 4 cm

• Width 38 cm

• Height 53 cm

How to use

• Preferably clean with a dry cloth

• Store in a place away from sunlight

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