The most challenging component of our age, speed, is not only dominant in communication and transportation but also in every area of our lives and is the socio-economic indicator of clothing needs. Fashion has been in the cycle of fast production and fast consumption for a long time. (Fast fashion), while fast fashion creates almost daily changes in the shop windows, it also creates mountains of underused clothes. As the second most polluting industry in the world, this situation creates waste of natural resources and pollution, and the masses who are concerned about the future of the planet and develop an attitude draw attention with the concepts of sustainable fashion, slow fashion, ethical fashion. In return, fast fashion producer brands declare that they adopt these approaches with high-cost campaigns and advertisements explaining the practices they carry out in the raw material supply and production stages for the environment and sustainability. However, these attacks of global brands are ironically called (green washing) and are generally thought to be for profit. Fortunately, after the Paris Agreement for sustainability management in textiles and according to the EU green agreement, textile manufacturers have to certify their corporate activities, production processes and products by bringing their carbon footprint, that is, their total greenhouse gas emissions, into compliance with the standards. Sustainability of the raw material and life cycle analysis of the product are the most important stages in the certification process.
While sustainability concerns introduce new concepts and tasks to the textile and fashion world every day, the importance and inspirational aspect of the traditional comes to the fore.
EkoDoku Sustainable Living Cooperative's non-violent silk production activities are compatible with the ecosystem at all stages. Because the basic input for silkworm breeding, which is an agroecological production method, is mulberry tree leaves. In other words, you first have to grow carbon sink mulberry trees. Silkworms must be fed with very fresh leaves from egg to cocoon weaving period. For this, our feeding house is right next to our mulberry garden. In other words, vehicles are not used for feed supply. We wait for the butterflies to come out of the cocoon and lay eggs for the silkworm to complete its life cycle. In this way, we obtain the production material for the next year. Then, the silk fibers pulled from the perforated cocoons with hand tools are turned into yarn and woven on hand looms.
Silkworm breeding and non-violent silk production for sustainability; non-violent silk products with long usage periods and natural fiber structures for slow fashion are very good examples coming from nature.