WOVEN : HANDLOOMED

Traditional handloom is remarkably flexible technology. Its great advantage lies in production of embellished fabrics (supplemental wefts, jamdani’s, single and double ikats) and weaves of extraordinary fineness such as muslins. Because the operator has control over each throw of the shuttle, continual fine adjustments can be made as the cloth is woven. The weaver can also start and stop as each thread is adjusted or supplements are added.
The mechanism of the loom-almost always worked with bare feet-permits the weaver to judge by feel when it is too damp, or too dry to continue working with extremely fragile fine-spun cotton.

HANDSPUN AND HANDWOVEN

Hands-on and handwoven is so much more than simply a beautiful type of fabric. It is an idea of cultural self-sufficiency with deep roots in the Indian industry.

In its essence, hands-on threads and handwoven fabrics are created through personal labour without industrial machinery. Hands-on and handwoven thus harkens back to the centuries when India produced the world’s most prestigious cloth. But with its emphasis on manual skills and hand production, handspun and handwoven also had a central role to play in countering the displacement of family life that took place during industrialization