Academics and a silk producer collaborate to produce ‘peace silk’ from silkworm endemic to Turkey
, “when I finally located a batch of Hatay yellow silkworms.” Duman is a silk producer who had been looking for a silkworm endemic to Turkey, called the Hatay yellow for more than seven years. “It’s as if a piece of me were missing.”
This year was the first time Duman was able to raise cocoons from this species of silkworm thanks to the support of academics who were also seeking sustainable solutions to raise the creatures in Hatay, in southern Turkey.Berna Ileri, an assistant professor at the Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, tellsthat she has been working on Hatay silkworms since 2013, establishing the Textile Arts Application and Research Centre, among other efforts.
Izmir Ekonomi University Fashion and Textile Design department chair, Prof Dr Elvan Ozkavruk Adanir, says in a press statement that in Europe, people no longer want chemicals or dead animals in the production of their clothes, “preferring the most natural, ethical goods in textile production.”Duman says that she has always allowed her silkworms to break through their cocoons, and she has always used traditional methods when producing silk, with as little damage to the creatures as possible..
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