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Floral motifs are represented in the arts of many
cultures and are ubiquitous in carpet design. Floral Perspectives in Carpet Design examines this
phenomenon from three perspectives - spiritual, cultural, and
artistic - as rendered in the designs of 17th- to 19th-century Indian,
Chinese, Central Asian, Persian, and Turkish carpets. The exhibition
explores cultural preferences for the representation of flowers, the
variety of floral motifs, and their transfer from culture to culture.
Included in the exhibition are 12 carpets drawn from The
Textile Museum's collections, many of which were collected by the
Museum's founder, George Hewitt Myers. Most of the carpets were
produced for the court, and represent some of the oldest and finest examples of their tradition.
Floral Perspectives in Carpet Design will be on view at The
Textile Museum August 27, 2004 - February 6, 2005.
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Turkey is the world's seventh largest cotton producer and
the sixth largest textile/apparel exporter. Turkey's largest
export sector is textiles, which accounts for 37 percent of the
total exports. Turkey is in the top ten synthetic fiber
producers. With the new investments of USD 1 billion by the
existing eight largest manufacturers totaling, their production
capacities will increase from 655 tons to 2,000 tons per day.
These investments aim at decreasing imports and increasing
Turkey's share in the world markets. Turkey's world market
share of spinning and fabric production are as follows: ring
spinning - 2.4 percent, open-end spinning - 2.0 percent, shuttle
looms - 2.5 percent, and shuttleless looms - 1.4 percent. With
initial investments in the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP)
the country's cotton production increased to from 700,000 tons
to 1 million tons per year.
Turkey's January 1, 1996 joining of the European Customs
Union brought with it the implementation of EU regulations,
including the recision of quotas on Turkish apparel exports to
member countries. These developments were expected to result in
an increase in textile exports, an enhancement of the investment
climate, improvements in quality, and increases in employment.
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According to WGSN, the importance of knitwear has grown steadily over the last few seasons. For this season
knitwear has taken over from jersey.
Knits are so key to this season that they are moving into other product areas - knitted coats and dresses offer
an alternative with longer, denser construction, shapes are smaller and all about texture and surface decoration.
Close-cut cardigans, cropped sweaters and short wraps feature.
Materials are seeing a return to natural fibre dominance and wool is being used as a dominant key fibre in 100%
pure new wool qualities and in blends with other natural fibres.
Natural fibre blends of cashmere, soft wool, mohair, angora, silk, linen and cotton whisper rather than shout of
their inherent luxury.
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The industrialization efforts of the sixties and seventies gave birth to the modern textile industry in Turkey. At the beginning, this sector operated as small workshops. In time the sector showed rapid development and during the seventies began exporting. Currently it is one of the most important sectors in the Turkish economy in terms of GDP, employment and exports. The share of this sector in the country's GDP is around 10 % and the sector's share of employment in total employment in the country is 20 %. Its share of production in total industrial production of the country is around 40 %.
Today, Turkey is one of the most important textile and clothing producers and exporters in the world. Turkey ranks 6th in world exports of clothing in 1998.
As a quality cotton-producing country, Turkey has an integrated and diversified production in all sub-sectors of the textile industry, produces and exports all types of yarn, fabric, clothing, household textiles and other ready-made products.
Turkey, as a traditional cotton grower has a great advantage in the production of textile and clothing. In 1999, the amount of cotton grown in Turkey was 855 000 tons.
By the year 2000, with the completion of the Southeastern Anatolian Project (GAP), it is estimated that Turkey's cotton production will be twice what it is today.
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waste water recycling in textile finishing through the application and further development of membrane bio-reactors used space life - support systems.
The textiles and clothing industry is one of Europe's leading industrial sector with a turnover of 198 billion Euro and a work force of 2.2 million employees distributed in more than 100.000 companies in EU15 mainly represented by SMEs.
Environmental issues constitute a major challenge for SMEs, mostly when wastewater in textile finishing is concerned. The textile finishing industry uses water as the principal medium for removing contaminants and applying dyes and finishes. Apart from a minor amount of water that evaporates during drying, the bulk is discharged as aqueous effluent.
The main concern is therefore about the huge amount of water discharged and the chemical load it carries. The release of chemicals and process auxiliaries in the water is a huge problem for the quality of life and health of European citizens.
The EC has recognized the seriousness of the problem in the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC), in the Directive 96/61/CE IPPC/BAT, and in the 19th amendment to Council Directive 76/769/EC, stating that the Member States are obliged to “take the appropriate steps to eliminate pollution of the waters by the dangerous substances”.
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