IW News On The Web-Help bring Hope

Uluslararası Direktörü Sevgili Ülkü Somer'in Istanbul 2012 yazısı

International Inner Wheel
News on the Web
March 2010
Help bring Hope

Inner Wheel members visiting Istanbul for the IIW Convention in 2012 may be intrigued by the Evil Eye beads they will see on sale everywhere. Ülkü Somer, IIW Board Member from Turkey, throws some light on the subject.
Don’t Forget Istanbul 2012!
Since the time of the Phoenicians fine quality beads have been produced in Turkey in primitive glass furnaces. In time motifs began to be used on these beads, resulting in the first charms against the evil eye. For thousands of years glass beads with eye motifs were used by the various civilisations that rose and fell in Turkey, and these charms spread to many other cultures beyond Anatolia.
Traditional crystal charms are created by pouring layers of crystal glass in four
different colours. Using a mandrel, molten glass is lifted up and poured onto a flat plate. A new colour is added before the lower layer is cooled, and this process is repeated for each new colour. Creation of these free form objects requires a team of four people to work in synchrony. Every charm produced by this method is unique.