One Of The Lingering Crafts of Turkish Roma. Broommaking

There is a village in Samsun in Vezirköprü. The 250 digited village called Incesu. Villagers are Gypsies and their mainstay is broommaking.

Gypsies of Incesu make and sell brooms. Day by day their mainstay has been getting lost because of the tecnological progress. Vacuum claeners have already taken the place of brooms so gypsies are suffering from falling demand to broom. This stiuation makes their income low.

One of the gypsies of the village Dursun Doruk told that broommaking had been commemorative from their ancestors. He added he had been making brooms since he had been 10 years old. Also, he adds, “ Although, broommaking is so difficult, comeback is very miscarriage”. Villagers also explain that unity of villagers is so important to support themselves from negative influences of rising technology. Cingeneyiz International

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One Of The Lingering Crafts of Turkish Roma. Broommaking

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