Sigraffito techniques and applications in contemporary tile art

Tile is defined as an ottoman onginet word meaning Chinese Work Belongingto China In references,tile isdefined as Glazed Pof,ottomans have used tile for every object made of clay.Sgraffito which is one of surface ceramics decorations has been produced from the Italian word graffiare that means engrave and has been used in this language as sgraffia and sgraffituna. It has the same meaning in 17th century French with sgrafit and gravure, engravement.However, as the name of procedure, the word sgraffito is used. Yhe procedure of engrawing is defined as krantputz in German, kakiotoshi in Japanese, graffito in Spanish and sgraffito in English and have been used in ceramics references in different languages.Sgraffito is the most prevalent technique used as ceramics decoration techniques. This technique has an old historical background almost as old as ceramics art. With the development of ceramics, sgraffito has been used in many different countries in different periods and has developed.In this technique that is stil being used, ceramics glazes are being used instead of primings taht cover the structure colour and perform different colours, with the development of ceramics technology.This researh is composed of a sections. 1st section-Introduction and historıical development of TileArt, 2nd section. Introduction and history of sgraffito technique, 3rd section. Sgraffito technique and application proceduces and sgraffito applications in acordance with the subject of Thesis.Key words-Tile, priming, underglaze, sgraffito, engrawing, gravure