weaving with silk thread It has been very popular throughout history due to its features of keeping it cool in summer and warm in winter.
Shirts used in women's and men's clothing, and the hoop used in women's clothing are still made of silk fabrics produced in villages.
In Mugla Milas It is possible to see the silk shirts they wear together with their "three-five" gowns, which are their local clothes, and the silk girdles they wear on their heads, even on special occasions, and even little girls playing on the street.
Silk weaving in the village is made from silk threads produced by women from golden yellow cocoons they grow. For this reason, weavings are also yellow in color. Silk weavings in white color are weavings made with silk produced from imported cocoons. Therefore, the woven fabrics are also colored in accordance with the cocoon. Since the most yellow cocoons are produced in this region, it is yellow in weaving.
The use of silk as weft and warp yarn in Milas Çomakdağ-Kızılağaç dastar weavings increases the value of the weavings. These weavings can be woven in 40-45 cm width due to the silk thread and hand loom weaving with human power. It is difficult to touch in wider width.
In Milas silk weaving, the same type and single color yarn is used in the warp and weft. Since the woven cloth foot is woven, a distinctive pattern does not occur. Only due to the binding of the threads, that is, the weaving weave, an image is formed with the effect of light and shadow.
In the Çomakdağ-Kızılağaç village of Milas, silk fabrics were used only in headscarves called "tops" and underwear called "shirts".
The fabrics, which are still woven with great devotion and meticulousness by the village women, are now woven in longer weaves to be used in accordance with today's conditions.
But they did not stop making “tops” and “shirts”. Especially, there are silk weavings in the corner of the dowry chests of the girls.
Dastar silk fabrics are woven on looms with whips. While weaving on the whip loom, the weaver sits in the middle of the sitting board. When the weaver is seated, he must be in a position where he can immediately reach out and pick up the bobbins previously wound with the weft threads. One of the weft bobbins is attached to the shuttle. The tip of the weft is pulled out of the hole of the shuttle bead and entangled in one of the warp threads from the edge. Warp tension is provided by turning the warp beam on which the warp threads passed to the fabric beam (sermin) on the front part and on which the woven fabric is wrapped in rolls are wrapped.
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