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from his grandfather. And his grandfather took from his
big grandfather; and he took from Armenian masters. A
loon was handed over to Mehmet Buyukasık at the age
of child. This early success about his job didn’t make him
pampered; on the contrary, it made him to work more and
more. Mehmet Buyukasık who told that he had been doing
this job since 1900, in 1950 he was the only one who
was working on this job.
Like Don Quixote who fought with windmill, he didn’t give
up his job, he made his loom worked with stubbornness in
his house having two rooms Mehmet Buyukasık who didn’t
stop doing his job even though he could live on his family
with difficulty, tells that “For my uncle, money was a medium
which was always on the second or third plan; and he
also taught this to us.” My uncle said, ”If everyone couldn’t
buy, there was no meaning to produce this.”
Buyukasık telling that like his uncle, his father worked on silk
for sometimes says that “At first, my father worked with my
uncle, then he couldn’t bear, he went abroad. I decided to
continue this work with my uncle and my cousins.”
The respect for his uncle for whom he said ‘my master’
isn’t overlooked by us. He and his cousins do
whatever they can do in order not to make upset
this wise master. Everything, without being factorymade,
is still made by handwork. Like the way 100
years ago, today in the same way, silks are produced
on the wooden looms.
The transformation of being fabric adventure in
which each string coming from and woven by uncle
Hasan Buyukasık, who talk with silkworms,
protects them as they were his children and who
feed them with the leaf of mulberry, makes a person
enchanted.
When you take silk in your hand, you don’t have to
be master to distinguish it from the fake one. The
delicacy of the fabric in which, all details of handcraft
can be understood, transfer for the mystery of
centuries to our times. The bridge of new and old,
past and future is tried to be built again with the
formation of different patterns.
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