The history of baths, which have existed for many centuries in many neighborhoods of Istanbul, dates back to the classical era in which ancient Greek, Hellenistic and Roman cultures developed. However, these structures, which represent only "physical cleansing" until the Ottoman Empire, were reinterpreted in the Ottoman palaces and in the Ottoman society and became a festive and socializing area especially for women. On special days (circumcision, marriage, military farewell, etc.) meals were eaten and entertainment was done here. For this reason, baths have become a socio-cultural place, not only cleaning places, but have become synonymous with Ottomans and Turks and today's Istanbul. One of the products that will best reflect this identification is "peshtemal".

Forty baths, groom baths, military baths, circumcision baths and the best known bridal baths were organized in the Ottoman Empire. The most common of these is the bride's bath. In the bath, which turned into an indispensable podium for young girls who have reached the age of marriage, the girls would show themselves to their mother-in-law candidates.

The bride would be turned into a work of art to be watched at weddings. While the bride was bathed in the most beautiful bathhouse of the bath, young girls in wedding dresses would sing music for their mother-in-law candidates, turning around the navel stone and offering them sherbet. The best things to see after the bride were the dowry of the young girls. Wedding dresses are handcrafted by young girls with great patience and care. Sacs, cheesecloths, soap dispensers, prayer rugs, linen, towels ... Young girls made these works of art, which were important in terms of folk art, by thinking about their lovers, which they dreamed with their hands. Every young girl has motifs related to her lover, which she wants in her embroidery.

Futa is called the silk Turkish loincloth, which was worn by the Ottoman palaces. Futa Ottoman loincloth series is embroidered with five different Turkish motifs. Each of these loincloths, inspired by the Turkish bath story, represents a character. So if you were a young girl in the Ottoman period, which motif would you choose?

HAYAT AĞACI:  BEAUTY AND GOODNESS.

ELİBELİNDE:  FEMALE AND FERTILITY.

SU YOLU:  PURITY AND WISDOM.

KURT İZİ:  PROTECTION AND COURAGE.

BUKAĞI:  LOYALTY AND LOVE.