Mardin a city of hard years in ıts history...

         A story taken ıts start many years ago

         A legend of sovereignty or a magnificence of being...

         Mardin has been home of handıcrafts in a period of history in history, time in time...
 

         With its long history Mardin is the cradle of many handicrafts. The older ones include pottery; iron and copper works; tinnery; jewelry; silver works (telkari); needlework; Midyat style embroidery; mattress making; dyeing (sibbeğ); leather works (dabbağ), soap making; weaving; Şal ü Şapik (a special type of cloth making); kilim and carpet (wool and silk) weaving; saddlery; wood works; pearl working; halburculuk (wood pieces mostly from hornbeam) and stone working. It is a pity that many of these are about to disappear