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When the geographical definition of Hartlap Neighborhood (village) is made, the first thing that comes to mind is the local knives. As a result of the fieldwork carried out in the Hartlap District, the village, which has an average of 1200 households, has personal workshops of various sizes. It is the Çelik family that brought the cutlery industry to the Hartlap District. Ali Bey, from the Çelik family, came to Hartlap from the Haruniye region of Osmaniye in the 1820s and brought the blacksmithing industry to the region. Afterward, while the executives of the blacksmithing industry were Recep and Ahmet Beys, their grandchildren and children, Ökkeş, Mustafa and Hasan Hüseyin Çelik brothers, started mass production of knives that would become famous as Hartlap knives in 1940-1945.

Thus, while knives were produced in addition to blacksmithing, after the mentioned date, blacksmithing was also engaged in besides cutlery. The apprentices and journeymen raised by Ökkeş, Mustafa and Hasan Hüseyin Çelik brothers later opened their own workshops and thus cutlery became an important source of livelihood in Hartlap District. The names of masters such as Yaşar Demir, Mehmet Üzüm and Ali Biber are mentioned among the prominent names in the cutlery sector in the region. Today, the Steel family, which has been working as a blacksmith for 6 generations and identified with knives, continues its efforts to develop the sector as an official business. After Ökkeş Çelik, his sons İsmail and Ahmet Çelik continued the sector, and later İsmail Çelik's sons Mehmet Ökkeş and Bahattin Çelik took the patent of the Hartlap knife in 2011 and contributed to keeping the sector alive with the brand Ökkeş Çelik (ÖK*Ç) and the use of the Hartlap knife outside the borders of Maraş.

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