ÇİTARİ FABRIC

Çitari is a type of fabric that emerged with new fabrics that began to appear after the eighteenth century. In çitari fabrics, was used silk in warp and cotton in weft. The characteristic feature of this fine fabric is that it is woven in stripes. However, there are many traditional fabric types woven as striped fabric. Çitari fabrics can be distinguished from other striped fabrics by their characteristics such as weaving weave, warp color pattern, raw material, and quality. It is known that çitari fabrics were woven in regions such as Bursa, Gaziantep, Istanbul, Tunceli, Diyarbakır, Tokat, Antalya, Harput, Yalvaç, İzmir, Denizli, India and Damascus. This type of fabric, which was widely used by the public in the past, is no longer produced today. It is thought that it is important to consider this fabric, which has the same name as a fish and a stringed musical instrument, in terms of its striped feature. In this context, çitari fabrics; with emphasis on historical development, word origin, types, usage areas and structural fabric properties, it is aimed to bring identity information to the literature. The technical analysis of 9 çitari fabric samples in the Kenan Özbel collection was made and presented in charts. In this respect, the study is important in order to can be re-weave çitari fabrics with the same characteristics and to can be compare them with similar fabric types in terms of technical information. Scanning and description, one of the research methods, was used in the study. As a result of the written literature reviews, it was seen that the çitari fabric was compared to the striped fabrics Kutnu, Alaca, Altıparmak, Diba, Selimiye, Manusa, Keremsut, and it was discussed by contrasting it with the fabric identity information in the evaluation part.