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ANKARA - Turkish Daily News

Mehmet Karaman, one of the few remaining silk dying experts in Turkey, has been struggling for 27 years to carry on with his profession in the 60-year-old workshop he took over from his father in the central Anatolian province of Kayseri.

Karaman dyes raw silk -- most of which is brought in from Bursa, the center of sericulture in Turkey -- in his historic workshop situated in the small neighborhood of Setenönü, reported the Anatolia news agency.

The two-stage process of producing silk thread from raw material and then dying it is a difficult one. Karaman says, "Experience plays a central role in this profession. For example, I decide the amount of dye to add by just looking at it, and I always succeed in obtaining exactly the same color."

However, Karaman notes that there is no one to continue this profession after he retires. "There used to be many workshops, but sericulture, silk dying and silk carpet weavers are on the verge of becoming extinct because of cheap Chinese carpets. There are few workshops where this profession is carried out in Turkey, and even those are at risk of closing," he says.

Karaman runs the only silk processing workshop in Kayseri. "In previous years, we used to process around five to six tons of raw silk, but now this number has dropped sharply to only one ton per year."

"I don't know what to do. I'm afraid this profession will die with me," he says.