With the project developed by the Milas Anatolian Trade and Trade Highschool, the resurrection and contribution to the economy of silkworm weaving is targeted.
A project aimed at resurrecting and developing silkworm keeping, and to create job opportunities for families keeping silkworms and thus contribute to the economy, was realized by the Milas Anatolian Trade and Trade Highschool. In conjunction with the project, a meeting is arranged for tomorrow with the chiefs of the villages where silkworms are raised.
The project targets families in rural areas and in villages that raise silkworms, common and formal education students who wish to learn a trade, and women aged 25 to 50 with or without education.
Milas Anatolian Trade and Trade Highschool Headmaster İmran Bahar Uysal, declaring that they attached great importance to the project, went on to explain the aim of the project, saying, “We are aiming to enliven and develop silkworm raising, and as Milas Anatolian Trade and Trade Highschool is at city center, to start silkworm raising at the school and make it the center of weaving and create a market for it, to teach this trade to women between the ages of 25 to 50, regardless of the level of education they have and to enable them to earn a living, to create employment for families in rural villages who raise silkworms, and thus contribute to the national economy, to promote the planting of mulberry trees which are essential to the silkworms, and to create jobs for women by teaching them silk weaving at the school.”
Uysal said, “With this project we want to develop the profession of raising silkworms, which is being done in a very small scale in the rural villages of our city. Silkworm raising that will be developed through our project will benefit from the dynamism of our touristic region, especially in the summer months, and will create new markets. As a result of the research we conducted, we found out that two or three families in the villages of Çomakdağ, Kayabaşı and Bayır raised silkworms and wove the thread. We observed that the women doing this were aged 50 to 70, and that the young people had no interest in the trade. As the women were of advanced ages, and as there was no one to carry on the trade after them, this cultural heritage was bound to disappear. At the moment, silkworm raising is being done in the villages of Çomakdağ, Ortaköy, Olukbaşı and Kayabaşı, where mulberry trees exist. The project to be initialized in the Milas Anatolian Trade and Trade Highschool will turn Milas into a silk weaving and marketing center, and thus keep the traditional culture alive.”
A meeting between the Milas Council, Milas Chamber of Trade and Commerce and the village chiefs of Çomakdağ, Bayır and Kayabaşı will be held tomorrow for the project.
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