Department of Handlooms and Textiles
The Fabric With A Story
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| ABOUT US >> THE ORIGIN | |||
| THE ORIGIN | |||
The Origin |
Textiles
have been a predominant industry in India, and weavers, its faithful
vanguards. Textiles are today the country’s second largest industry
after agriculture, India’s textile industry is a village based
industry, with a profusion
of skill hidden from the world. |
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Handloom weavers account
for such a large percentage of the textile production, the demand for
their skills is on the decline. Numerous committees, commissions and
task forces have tried to evaluate and strategize the future of this
craft, but the number of handloom weavers decrease by 2% every year. |
Handloom prices
are determined by external factors, all of which impede growth and
are far beyond the handloom industry’s control, like international
production trends, and slow development of pre and post processing
facilities. Added to this, the heavy dependence on Government subsidies
for existence, while having to rely on a slow growth area like cotton
textiles. Reason enough for handloom weavers to migrate to power loom
factories. |
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