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NECMEDDIN OKYAY
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was born on the 29th of January 1885 in Uskudar. He was the master
marbler of the twentieth century. Necmeddin Okyay was educated in
theology but he is best known as a calligrapher and marbler. Besides
calligraphy and marbling, he was a master of ink-making, traditional
bookbinding, rose-growing, archery etc. He learnt ebru from Hezarfen
Edhem Efendi. He taught calligraphy at Medresetu'l Hattatin (School
of Calligraphy) and traditional bookbinding and ebru at the Academy
of Fine Arts. He taught ebru to his sons Sami (1910-12 June 1933)
and Sacid (1915-19 April 1999) Okyay and to his nephew Mustafa Duzgunman
(1920-12 September 1990) .Before Necmeddin Okyay, we had very primitive
flower ebrus. He started a new style in our ebru history by creating
flower designs which are admired by the marblers of the world. He
is also the inventor of calligraphy with marbling. At the beginning
he used to prepare stencils of calligraphies, glue them on the paper
to be marbled using gum Arabic which is a very weak adeshive and
remove the stencil after the paper has been marbled. Later he noticed
that the parts of the paper which has gum Arabic resist the dyes
and he started to write with gum Arabic instead of ink. The most
famous of calligraphies produced by Necmeddin Okyay as described
is the "Lafza-i Celal" ( name of God ).
 SAMI
OKYAY
He was the second son of Necmeddin Okyay. He was born in Uskudar
in 1910. He learnt ebru from his father and made unbelievably beautiful
and technically difficult ebrus during his very short life. Besides
ebru, he was a very talented illumination, engraving, lacquer and
traditional bookbinding artist.
SACID OKYAY
He was the third and youngest son of Necmeddin Okyay. He was born
in Uskudar in 1915. He taught traditional bookbinding and ebru at
the Academy of Fine Arts from 1936 to 1973 until he retired.He died
on the 19th of April 1999 and buried at the Karacaahmet Cemetery,
next to his father.
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