Turkish Horn Bow

These Ottoman empire(13-20. century) bows are really unigue, they are smallest and fastes in hornbow family. They are experts to handle with light weight arrows, in oposite with biggest Manchu (Quing dynasty, 17-20. century) which shoot perfectly with extremely heavy arrows.

Fortunately we have a lot of antique bows which has been preserved till these days. So reconstruction can be done really detailed, even the decoration. They was painted with gold ornaments, which is tipical for Near East area, Persia, India.