LOCAL ART IN BAFRA

LOCAL ART IN BAFRA

·        CARPET WEAVING

       Carpet weaving has developed and become widespread thanks to organized work undertaken by the Directorate of Public Training Center of the Town. The most valuable ones are the Hereke types because Hereke carpets are sold with higher prices and generally to foreign countries. Carpet weaving is supported by the government who give timed, interest-free loans to people living in forest villages and weaving carpets.

Materials used in carpet weaving:

       1. Bench

       2. Wool yarn

       3. Pattern samples

       4. Kirkit

       5. Scissors

       6. Wefting and warping yarn

       The weaving process: First of all, wooden bench is installed on the balance. Then warping yarn is woven over the bench. By looking into the pattern samples, straight or reverse stitches are looped over the warping yarn with wool yarn and woven in rows by looking into samples. When each row is completed, scissors is applied with kirkit and make the carpet get the whole pattern fitted in.

      

2-KNITTING SOCKS

Materials Used:

       1.Wool

       2. Distaff

       3. Ready-mixed paint, salt, alum, water

       4. Five mile - knitting needle

Process:

       Start knitting both:

       1. From the cuff and

       2. From the toes

       Start with 12 single stitches. Then divide it into two single stitches, six each. Then divide it once more into two (3 stitches 4 needles) and increase stitch at 4 points. After increasing to some point, sample may be applied if required. Socks is woven upto the heel. There are different types of heels woven: Trabzon and Doğu Topuğu – Eastern Heel- is lengthened upto the cuff. Different fibre paints, madders, powder paints, paints arised from onionskin, salt and alum are used.

       Madders are picked up, dried, brayed, boiled. Wool is damped and kept in paint overnight and then put into cold water.

3-KNITTING STRAW

Materials Used:

       1. Rush

       2. Sedge warbler

       3. Cane

       4. Straw

       5. Weaver’s reed

Process:

       Wooden bench (in the required dimensions) is prepared. Sedge warbler is tied to the wood at the one end of the bench. Then it is crossed into the weaver’s reed’s first loop twice and tied to the wood at the bench’s end. Then the same process is repeated once more. This way, sedge warblers are made ready to be woven. Canes which are soaked a night before are pressed with weaver’s reed (thicker end of one crane and the thinner end of another crane- heads are folded inwards). When the first line is completed, the cranes in the second line are moved to the top, the cranes at the top are moved to the bottom and the weaving continues. As soon as the straw is woven on the required side, sedge warblers’ ends are cut, weaver’s reed is removed and sedge warblers are knotted.

4-RUG WEAVING

Materials Used:

       1. Bench.

       2. Wool

       3. Paint

       4. Weaver’s reed

Process:

       Wheft yarn is placed over the bench. In accordance with the paint to be woven, colorful warp yarn is then thrown over the wheft yarn. When a line is copmleted, pressing is applied with weaver’s reed. This is how a rug, in required length and pattern, is woven.

5-BASKET WEAVING

Materials Used:

       1. Dried corncob leaves,

       2. Needle,

       3. Ready-mixed dye and natural dye,

       4. Sedge warbler (woven with sedge)

Weaving process and definitions of materials used:

       a) Sedge: A plant which grows by itself in wetlands. Its length is 1.5-2 m and thickness is 0.5 cm. It is used in basket and straw weaving.

       b) Sedge warbler: Sedge is soaked a day before. 4 or 6 fibre ends are gathered and tied. Upto its number, fibres are seperated into two and then bent in the palm in the required size.

       c) Corncob leaves: Outer leaves of corn.

       d) Needle: A 50 cm. fibre is folded into two from the middle. A loop (enough to make the corncob leaf pass through it) is left and then the ends of the fibre are bended.

       e) Ready-mixed dye,

       2. Natural dye,

       a) Onion skin dye: Arised from dried onion skins which are boiled.

       b) Walnut dye: Walnut shells (gren) are removed and brayed, then boiled.

Pattern sample:

       Dyed corncob leaves may get colored in lines while basket is woven or in any other required way. There is no specific pattern sample.

Process:

       Corncob leaves get soaked and softened. Then each is divided into 3 equal pieces (lengthwise), pressed neatly over the sedge warbler and finally are woven from right to left. After they are woven 8 to 10 cm, the woven part is bended inwards. The part which is initially woven is then bended in the middle and woven in the required way.

       Corncobs are needled in their ends. Pattern is given to the rug with corncob leaves.

       In the recent years, thanks to the training programs regularly organized by the Directorate of Public Training Center of Bafra, Basket Weaving has been presented in nation-wide. The Directorate also organized other activities to make this art widespread. There are still ongoing projects, production, employment and marketing activities undertaken in this field. The target is to make basket weaving an important economic source for Bafra.