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Şile Cloth
Project Type
Cultural Heritage & Women’s Empowerment through Weaving
Project Date
27 June 2022
Role and Responsibilities
Textile designer and coordinator supporting the revival of traditional Anatolian weaving and women’s employment.
Project Type
Cultural Heritage & Women’s Empowerment through Weaving
Fabric Specifications
This 100% pure cotton fabric (150 g/m², 88 cm width) combines lightness and strength, offering a soft natural texture and timeless quality.
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The salt content of Şile's sea, along with the fine sands on Şile's shores, guided our ancestors, who filled pots with seawater and boiled them to weave delicate fabrics. They poured a cup of flour into the boiling seawater to prepare a broth. Into this broth, they dipped the threads, strengthening them with flour before weaving them into fine fabrics on looms. These woven fabrics were then washed in the sea at Şile and dried on the fine Şile sands. The fine sands became embedded in Şile fabrics, but it was the threads that had been mixed with flour, met with the sea, and washed, that became Şile Fabric.
You know how deeply connected I am to the culture, tradition, and Anatolia. I feel that we are also connected to each other. It makes me very happy.
I set up 100 looms in Şile and provided weaving training to 200 Şile women.
The women of Şile wove and sewed.
I continue to support women's employment in Şile.
We wove the most beautiful fabrics just like our grandmothers did.
I designed it with respect for Anatolia. "Fırat Neziroğlu"
