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“Ours is a family company” says Buyukasık and goes on telling
“In Antakya, we all grew up in the houses which have the
same courtyard. We went to school together, we learned together
to work on loom. And now we try to do this job with
my cousins, Yılmaz, Tuncay and Ali Buyukasık. Unfortunately,
this job starts to be in the category of the jobs which are forgotten
day by day. We, as cousins, try to develop some projects
in order to make this job active. For example, ever year, we
open weaving courses in Antakya. Last year we had about 30
students. And our students are generally females. We employ
some students we educate in our shops. The materials used for
embroidery can’t be found easily in the market. For instance, in
order to use for hand craft, many materials like French linen are
imported from abroad. But generally these materials are mixed
with polyester. Our people spend great effort in doing handwork.
Hand crafts which are done with natural supplies are
useful not only in the aspect of worth but also in the aspect of
being permanent. A handwork which is done with great effort
certainly deserves a valuable material. In our region, handwork
is very important; our wives choose carefully the materials
which decorate their works. If the material which will enter into
chest is not silk, brides can’t escape from their mother-in-laws’
words (laughing).”
Care of the Materials
After talking too much about the materials, we wonder how
the care of these materials is. The products made with raw silk
shouldn’t be washed in washing machines in no ways. They
shouldn’t be rub some much and should be washed by hand
with shampoo, shouldn’t be squeezed, should be ironed when
they are moist and steam set of the iron shouldn’t be used.
We learn from Buyukasık that they send wholesale materials
to the countries like America, Italy, England and France.
Buyukasık tells that as retail, the interested ones find them
in a way. And he states that in Turkey some famous fashion
designers like Ozlem Suer, Cemil Ipekci, Bahar Korcan buy
materilas from them.
Just as there are fans of organic agriculture, so too will the
organic material production attract attention. The materials
produced in an organic way are extremely useful like organic
nourishments. Especially for people having allergy problems,
silk is a preferable kind of material type. Raw linen, raw silk
and wool start to be accepted from each kind of people. We
learn that before this, even it is a kind of product which is
generally preferred by rich customers; from now on it attracts
attention of customers from each part of society. In fact, the
prices are not expensive as they are supposed. The materials
made of raw silk; raw wool and raw cotton have features of
protecting from heat in summer and cold in winter. Yes, it is
a fact that its care is harder but we suppose for health, we
should bear this. If it is thought that every material in there
comes from hand of a nameless craftsman, calling them
only as materials are injustice. Who knows that in which feelings
these craftsmen work on their looms ton the process of
weaving, which folk songs they sing, for what they cry, for
what they laugh… When you take on your hand the materials
woven on loom, you feel yourself more special. Because
you know that these materials are produced for you and with
great efforts.
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