TYPES OF FABRIC AND WEAVING CULTURE IN THE COURT RECORDS OF KAYSERİ KAYSERİ ŞER'İYYE SİCİLLERİNDE KUMAŞ ÇEŞİTLERİ VE DOKUMA KÜLTÜRÜ
Turk Kulturu ve Haci Bektas Veli - Arastirma Dergisi, sa.118, ss.503-518, 2026 (Scopus, TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.60163/tkhcbva.1921146
- Dergi Adı: Turk Kulturu ve Haci Bektas Veli - Arastirma Dergisi
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Directory of Open Access Journals, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM), MLA International Bibliography
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.503-518
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Kayseri weaving, Ottoman craftsman, Ottoman pre-industrialisation, Ottoman weaving
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This study examines the strategies developed by Ottoman local manufacturers in response to the competitive pressures generated by the Industrial Revolution in the West, which transformed modes of production. It is based on inheritance records preserved in the Kayseri Sharia court registers (sicils) covering the period between 1638 and 1897. Through the analysis of hundreds of probate inventories and related court documents from seventeen different registers, the study elucidates the structure of Kayseri's local weaving sector, patterns of textile consumption, and the characteristics of imported fabrics. In total, 216 different types of fabrics used in household textiles, clothing, and wholesale trade have been identified. Over approximately 260 years, the most commonly encountered fabrics in Kayseri were broadcloth (çuha), alaca, satin (atlas), gauze (tülbent), boğası, kutnu, peştamal, and çit. Broadcloth remained the dominant fabric type until the first half of the nineteenth century, whereas in the nineteenth century printed cotton fabrics (basma) gained increasing prominence and, from the mid-century onwards, became the most frequently recorded category. The marked expansion in fabric diversity observed from the nineteenth century onwards can be understood in connection with developments in the global textile industry and their gradual reflection in local markets and manufacturing practices.