Gourds turn into works of art in Kocaeli

KOCAELİ (İGFA) – Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality Vocational and Art Training Courses (KO-MEK) opens courses for alternative handicraft products. KO-MEK, which has produced beautiful products by opening courses in different branches in the field of handicrafts, has now opened a course on gourd processing. Citizens also showed great interest in the course opened in Derince KO-MEK course center.

PATIENCE AND LABOR

The gourds used by adults to transport water in the past are nowadays turned into works of art in skillful hands. While the citizens participating in the course shape the pumpkins with small drills, eye-catching works come out. Painted and varnished gourds turn into beautiful chandeliers and night lamps.

THE PERFECT BARRIER HAS BEEN RECOVERED

“We are getting income by selling our products on Komeksepeti.com.” Özlem Çukur, who attended the gourd embroidery course, and her daughter Yasemin with down syndrome, succeeded the incredible and create beautiful works. Down syndrome giving life again to the gourd Jasmine also table tennis championship in Turkey, has degrees in long jump and running competitions.

WHICH STEPS DOES IT GO

The gourds, which turned into works of art after long efforts, adorn the houses by going through these stages. The trainees who give patterns on gourds then start to work by patiently piercing the pattern intervals one by one. Drilled gourds are thinned and cut. After the cracking and burning processes, the trainees who start the painting process lighten the painted gourds by varnishing them. Enlightened gourds are starting to decorate homes with traces of a literally fabulous past.

Citizens who want to benefit from KO-MEK trainings free of charge can apply via KO-MEK’s official website www.komek.org