@article{2017,title={Traditional Shoe Making in Van Lake Basin : Reşik and Harik (Herık)},abstractNode={Shoemaking has a very important place in traditional crafts and its history depends on very old times. First of all shoes have only purpose of protection and then aesthetics worries had become show up. Shoes had been called with different names like sandal, boots, slipper, clog and blucher depending upon geographic conditions, climate conditions and social status. Anatolia has a rich and rooted tradition from shoe making and these shoes are known with the names like başmak, çarık and Yemeni. These shoes are partially carried to these days and they are handicrafts that are transferring practical intelligence and sense of aesthetics of Anatolian people. However, just like for other traditional hand arts and crafts shoe making had defeated against the modern needs and technology and it had started to pass into oblivion. Nowadays it is being produced in some regions rarely and for touristic purposes. One of the richest samples of traditional shoe making is Van Lake Basin. In this basin; shoes that are made in Van city are called as reşik, others made in Bitlis are called as harik. In this paper, food samples of Van Lake Basin that are not subjected adequate research had been tried to be executed by field scanning method.},author={Eylem GÜZEL-- Nazan OSKAY},year={2017},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}