The metropolitan touch of hemp textile: Its fame is spreading worldwide

The Samsun Metropolitan Municipality Hemp and Silk Weaving Workshop continues to lead in hemp textiles. The workshop, which employs only women, both preserves a tradition and increases the fame of hemp textiles every day. In Vezirköprü district, which was declared the hemp cultivation center of Turkey by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2019, the hemp grown there is transformed into value-added products at the Samsun Metropolitan Municipality's Hemp and Silk Weaving Workshop. The Metropolitan Municipality's workshop, which has made significant contributions to the development of hemp weaving through its work, is also seeing its products' fame increase. There is heavy demand for products such as hemp jackets, shirts, dresses, pants, home textiles, accessories, and bags, not only from Turkey but also from abroad. Hemp threads are shaped by women's hands The workshop, located next to Sevgi Lake in İlkadım district, employs only women. The project, which supports women's employment, ...