The importance of bursa fabric production in today's textile sector

Textile sector in Turkey, which started to develop with cotton agriculture, has become an industry capable of exportation over time. The increasing capacity and export success over the years made Turkey one of the world's leaders of textile suppliers. Being the raw material suppliers, this developing textile industry paved way to the development of garment and clothing industry. Being amongst the prominent textile and garment exporters since 1980, Turkey has some major cities, where textile production is denser. These are, Bursa, Denizli, İstanbul, İzmir, Adana, Kayseri, Mersin and Uşak. Besides being located at the intersection of transportation routes, Bursa is also famous for being a textile center, where silk is produced and traded from past to present. Developing these opportunities constantly with the help of technology, Bursa has an important place in the world market as well as in the Turkish textile sector. Until the 20th century, Bursa had been known for its silk production. However, with regional wars and their social effects on the society, silk production and consumption weakened. With the help of the factories like İpek İş, Merinos and Gemlik Suni, which were established with State Capital under the leadership of Atatürk, silk production was revived. Because of the problems that appear during the natural production process of silk, Synthetic silk and wool production became more widespread in Bursa after 1930's. Bursa Chamber of Commerce and Industry, one of the supporters of the development of textile industry, was established to develop a common sense and strategy and it has been setting strategies since its foundation. It leads the economy of the city, contributes to the R&D studies and to the International Summit of R&D Project Market and strengthens the collaboration between the university and industry by means of various projects. Established for the purpose of strengthening value added production in technical textile industry under the leadership of Bursa Chamber of Commerce and Industry, BUTEKOM Center for Excellence plays a pioneering role in the application of innovative ideas. Using advanced technology opportunities, Bursa woven fabric sector closely follows the developments in textile, woven fabric technology. Bursa is advanced in almost every field of fabric production. It hosts successful companies both in home textile and clothing industry. This study focuses on garment fabric and it is limited with this area.