The Association of Traditional Arts, organized “The International Meeting for the Art of Binding” between November 29^th – December 8^th, 2012. Within the ten days activities, a two-day symposium, three exhibitions, four workshop meetings and the 5^th Silver Tulip Contest were organized.

By collecting the visual and textual contents of the event which received a great interest by the audience, a book of two volumes was prepared as a source of reference for artists, researchers and academicians in this area.