Özet:

Citari is a thin fabric that is woven using silk in its warp and cotton in its weft. These fabrics emerged with new fabrics that began to appear after the eighteenth century. In written sources, Çitar, Çitarı, Çetari, Çatarı, Çitari, Çıtarı, Çitarî, Çitâri Şitari, Şeştari, Şetari, Sitarî are included with different sound analogies. As a result of the research, it was observed that citari fabrics were woven in regions such as Bursa, Gaziantep, İstanbul, Tunceli, Diyarbakır, Tokat, Antalya, Harput, Yalvac, İzmir, Denizli, India, Damascus. Today, it is no longer produced. It has been noticed that no special study has been done on this type of fabric, which has an important place among striped fabrics in the past. With this study cheetah fabrics; With emphasis on historical development, word origin, types, usage areas and structural fabric properties,these informations are aimed to be in literature. Technical analysis of 9 citari fabric samples that could be accessed were made and presented in tables. In this context, the study is an important guide for re-weaving citari fabrics. Scanning and description, one of the research methods, was used in the study. As a result of the written literature reviews, it was seen that the citari fabric was compared to the striped fabrics Kutnu, Alaca, Altiparmak, Diba, Selimiye, Manusa, Keremsut and this is discussed in comparison in the evaluation part.

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