"Şile celebrates its world-famous product
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Şile is holding its 22nd annual Şile Festival this weekend. It actually started on Friday evening but there’s still plenty of entertainment to go around today and tomorrow. The fun begins at 18:00 [HH] How the women in Şile started weaving their trademark material doesn’t seem to be known although it is thought to have been somewhat more than 150 years ago. Perhaps they started just to satisfy the needs of their families and village, the usual reason in a country with limited resources and poor communications"
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