Basak Tekstil

Company Profile

This record sits one step further back in the chain than most of the directory: Basak sells yarn and greige (raw) circular knitted fabric, not finished cloth. The yarn count range is the telling detail — NE 6/1 at the coarse end serves fleece and sweatshirt knitting, while counts up to NE 105/1 are fine yarns for lightweight jersey — so the company addresses knitters across the weight spectrum rather than a single niche.

Kayseri, in central Anatolia, is one of Türkiye's established industrial cities, and Turkish yarn spinners compete on a combination of cotton quality, count consistency and short shipping times into Europe. Basak's mention of slub yarn (a deliberate thick-and-thin effect yarn for fashion fabrics) and Lycra core yarn (for stretch knits) shows the range reaching beyond commodity counts into the effect and elastane yarns that fashion knitters need. The record closes with a direct invitation: ask for samples and prices.

Basak's yarn counts deserve translating: NE 6/1 is a coarse yarn for heavy knits, NE 105/1 a very fine yarn — the span covers almost the whole knitting trade. Offering open-end, carded and combed versions across that span means the spinning frames serve both price-driven fleece programs and fine jersey programs. The two specialities round out the picture: slub yarn in both open-end and ring quality (the fashion effect yarn), and core yarn with DuPont Lycra, the branded elastane of its period, for stretch knits. Raw circular knitted fabric is sold alongside — greige cloth for buyers with their own finishing.

Sourcing and Working With Basak Tekstil

Yarn buying is a numbers discipline: fix the count system first (Basak quotes in NE, the English cotton count), then the spinning method — open-end yarns are bulkier and cheaper, ring-spun carded and combed yarns are smoother and stronger — and the twist level, because knitting performance and fabric hand both follow from those choices. For slub yarn, agree the slub pattern's intensity and repeat; for Lycra core yarn, the elastane percentage and draft decide the fabric's stretch and recovery.

Greige circular knitted fabric is bought unfinished, so the buyer's own dyeing and finishing route completes the product — confirm the greige construction (gauge, stitch length, width and weight) against your finisher's capability, and ask what the mill's yarn-to-fabric conversion assumes for shrinkage. Sample cones and a trial knitting are the normal first step, exactly as the company's own record suggests.

Understanding the Range

Yarn is the textile chain's first manufactured product, and everything downstream — knitting speed, fabric surface, dye levelness — is limited by yarn quality. The buyers Basak Tekstil serves judge yarn on evenness, strength, hairiness and contamination as much as on count and price, because a cheap yarn that stops machines is the most expensive yarn on the floor. Whether the end product is 'Yarns and raw circular knitted fabric' or greige fabric knitted from it, the working method is the same: trial the yarn on the actual machines and fabric it will become, measure the results, and only then talk about volume.

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