Aktas, CerenAdanir, Elvan Ozkavruk2024-08-252024-08-2520242146-9059https://doi.org/10.20488/sanattasarim.1506104https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14365/5493The origins of traditional clothes of the Turks extend to the clothing culture of their ancestors who lived in Eurasia. Turks wore multi-layered, stitched clothes that allowed freedom of movement, compatible with the climate, geography, and culture they lived in, and they used pattern methods that provided the most efficiency from narrow-width woven fabrics. The cutting features of the traditional Turkish clothing based on using the fabric economically and avoiding wastage, and this method has been applied to clothes used in daily life and on special occasions and worn on top of each other in a certain order. Since fabric waste has become a big problem today, solutions are being tried to be produced with the concepts of zero waste and sustainable fashion. Although this understanding is thought to be a new phenomenon, when historical clothes are examined, it can be said that the zero-waste design approach was applied centuries ago. In this study, the zero-waste design approach of traditional Ottoman Turkish women clothing dating back to the 19th and 20th centuries are analyzed in terms of cutting and pattern making techniques. A total of thirty-eight uc etek, cepken and shalvar samples found in Izmir Ethnography Museum were examined. The results show that zero waste pattern and cutting methods are used in traditional Turkish clothes, thus significantly reducing the wastage rate. With this study, in which the production processes of traditional clothing are examined in depth, it is aimed to provide a source for designs to be made with zero waste method in the future.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessTraditional Turkish Women ClothingUc EtekShalvarCepkenZero-WasteArticle10.20488/sanattasarim.1506104