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Florals polymer clay cutters

Polymer clay cutter florals draw on the flowers of Ottoman court art. In the sixteenth century the palace painter Kara Memi brought tulips, carnations, roses and hyacinths into Ottoman design, the quatre fleurs that fill Iznik tiles, kaftans and manuscript borders, alongside the older stylised hatayi blossom and the penç, a rosette seen from above.