History of  Weaving Art and Vegetable Dyeing in Buldan and Denizli Regions

Buldan town of Denizli is the homeland of pestemal.
According to a study, it is known that Buldan history goes back to the stone age and the weaving art was being performed in Buldan also in ancient times. In ancient era, Buldan that located in Tripolis was a place which was known with flax production and weaving and vegetable dyeing craft . There was extensive trade activities with oversea countries.

The paint fixative feature of the natural thermal waters  in Denizli and cultivating in the region the Judas tree whic is containing a natural dye  has been effective on development of vegetable dyeing in connection with hand-weaving.  
It has been mentioned in Geographika ( the famous work of the geographer Strabo who lived in the 1 st century BC ) the dye fixation feature of the waters of  Denizli Hieropolis Archaic City which known as also Holy City.
Another point attracting the attention of researchers is the method of dyeing wool used in the textile dyeing to achieve vivid colors at the present time, has been used in Denizli in ancient times.

Nowadays, vegetable dye is used in many of Turkish home textiles and Turkish carpets especially in the Turkish Towels woven in Buldan, Denizli and Bursa .
Natural dye vegetation are not cause environmental pollution and they have the features of antitoxic , anticancerogenic , antioxidant , antibacterial , antimicrobial .