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Above Antakya city, Turkey, is a workshop.

It's for making silk.

The workshop belongs to the Duman family.

They started making silk years ago.

The workshop's on the old silk road from China.

The Dumans' silk is special.

It's kind to the silkworms.

It doesn't kill them.

So Duman silk is 'peace silk'.

In February, there was a terrible earthquake here.

The earthquake killed 50,000 people.

The Dumans lost their home.

They started living in the workshop.

They let 100 other people live there too.

Before, 70 people worked for them.

Many were women.

Only 7 of them came back.

The Dumans were worried about starting again.

People from Syria started working there.

So now, the business is producing silk again.

This traditional work's good for the Antakya area.

A few months ago, there were 3,000 businesses for silk and other fabrics.

Now, you can hear the noise of silk-making.

Life is starting again.

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