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LIST OF TABLES Table 4.1 Looms and patterns distributed by the Handicrafts Directorate...................94 Table 4.2 Hand-woven carpet exports..........................................................................97 viii
CHAPTER 1 <strong>IN</strong>TRODUCTION This thesis will focus mainly on the following three questions: 1) Why do rural Turkish women weave carpets? 2) What are the influences of the global market on carpet design? 3) In what ways is the government involved in the weaving industry? Dickie and Frank (1996) propose a framework for examining the economic and social significance of craft production through recognition of the social and economic environment in which production takes place. Their framework is used in this study of rural women in Turkish society and weavers in rural society to examine their social and economic status as artisans in the world market. Knowing why a woman might weave (or not weave) illuminates the changes that have taken place in the weaving industry over the past ten years and helps predict where the industry will be in the future. Changes in design and structure of carpets demonstrate how markets influence weavers as traditions become commodified. These changes in the structure of carpets reflect changes in the society in which they are being produced, and shed light on the lives of weavers as well. An understanding of certain ways in which government entities are involved with weaving and how they interact both with weavers and with each other could help stakeholders work together in furthering their agendas and aiding impoverished rural women, the group most likely to be employed as weavers. Carpet weaving is an ancient art that has traditionally been passed down from mother to daughter as a means of supplying furnishings for the household and goods for a girl’s dowry (Anderson 1998). It was a communal activity, in which all of the 1
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Page 3 and 4: ABSTRACT The purpose of this study
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Figure 3.2 Carpets woven for first
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sent from Turkey to China and the c
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The manager was interviewed using t
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3.6.1 Comlekci The population of Co
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Feslegen was a village of 498 in 20
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An interview, using the same list o
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villages, and the Export Promotion
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following both geometric and curvil
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Figure 3.12 Geometric carpets for s
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4.1 Introduction CHAPTER 4 RESULTS
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different sections of a carpet at t
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Figure 4.2 Dowry carpets in house i
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competition from countries with low
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governmentally mandated eighth-grad
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income. Carpets are bought by Sumer
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areas where weaving is only a low-s
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colors with which they weave. In th
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University found that weavers in th
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Workshop production is somewhat dif
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Figure 4.8a Handwoven carpets, prob
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ideas of interior design influencin
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dealers offer better prices in orde
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given area). The higher the skill o
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unlikely to be receiving Social Sec
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The wide variety of places across t
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5.1 Introduction CHAPTER 5 SUMMARY
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continued lightening affirms findin
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5.2.3 In what ways is the Turkish g
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supporting micro- to macro-enterpri
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farther east with lower labor and m
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could also investigate whether weav
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How did you learn to weave? (How ol
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Do you think that this is a fair wa
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Cohen, Jeffrey H. “Textile Produc
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Landreau, Anthony. “Anatolian Rug
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