APPLICATION OF BEYPAZARI CULTURAL PATTERNS IN FASHION PRODUCT ACCESSORY DESIGN

Like numerous places in Anatolia, Beypazarı County is an important settlement with historical texture, which has witnessed ancient civilizations and bears the traces of many cultures. Since this place has hosted many civilizations, Beypazarı is an important cultural tourism attraction area, based on its effort to claim its abstract and concrete cultural heritage. Both the preservation of Turkish traditional decorative art and the application of its cultural value in accessory design, which is among the supportive elements of fashion, will substantially support maintaining our cultural heritage. The general purpose of this study is to investigate the traditional art forms of Turkish society, which ensure the survival of Turkish culture, and to transform this art into the design of accessories, one of the indispensable elements of fashion. The current study is important since it aims to preserve and promote the cultural heritage of Beypazarı and to hand this down to the next generations, and to use ornamentation techniques and composition specifications in different areas and record the usage so as to create a literature. As a research method, applied research technique was selected, which covers trial applications of information that has already been produced or that is being produced. Research sampling consists of ornamentations with geometric and plant patterns which reflect the historical texture of Beypazarı County, used as inspiration in the design of accessories. In the research, the stages of analysis, synthesis, selection and modelling of the fashion item design process were studied. Geometric shapes and plant figures used extensively in Beypazarı decorations, which also fit in with the “ethnic elements” theme used widely in 2015 summer and winter fashion trends, were interpreted by designers and new designs were created.