Ümit Altunkaya
Sales and export at Altunkaya Tekstil. He supplies wholesale knitted fabric from the store in Zeytinburnu, Istanbul — and is the person behind the technical guides and fabric pages on this site.
Who writes the content on this site?
Ümit Altunkaya — responsible for sales and export at Altunkaya Tekstil, in business since 2013. He runs wholesale fabric supply and export from the store in Zeytinburnu, Istanbul. The weights, widths, fibre contents and care instructions on this site are not compiled from secondary sources; they are measured values from fabrics produced to our own specifications, together with dyehouse records and customer orders.
Where does the first-hand experience come from?
| Fabric group | Hands-on experience |
|---|---|
| Polar fleece · Brushed · Printed fleece | Setting weight and hand feel, anti-pilling checks, batch acceptance |
| Sherpa / plush · Teddy | Pile height and hand selection, jacquard and print application |
| Welsoft · Checked/striped welsoft | Jacquard pattern selection, drape, home-textile use |
| Jersey · Lycra jersey · Combed cotton | Combed vs carded, GSM–width relationship, shrinkage measurement |
| Three-thread · French terry · Brushed | Brushing depth, 2-thread vs 3-thread, winter weights |
| Dyeing & finishing | GOTS · BCI · OEKO-TEX Standard 100 Class I processes (partner dyehouse) |
What the work actually involves
How the content on this site is produced
Technical figures — weight ranges, widths, fibre ratios, minimum order quantities — are taken directly from the technical sheets of the fabrics we have produced to our specifications and from dyehouse records; incoming batches are measured at the store to confirm them. Guide articles are built on that data and read by the production-follow-up team before publication.
The site is published in seven languages. For languages other than Turkish, software assistance is used in translation and editing; the technical values, however, come from the same source in every language, and when an error is found it is corrected across all languages at once. If something is not verified on our side, we do not publish it — for example, we hold no GRS certificate, so no GRS claim appears anywhere on this site.
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