411-431Handloom industry is among the oldest industries in India, dating back to Saraswati-Indus Civilization, and various archaeological findings and ancient texts manifest its existence. The handloom sector is the second largest employment provider after agriculture, and accounts for nearly 15% of the cloth production in India. The uniqueness and versatility in weaves and designs of textiles from various regions of the country illustrate the rich tradition of India. Indian textiles gained prominence during ancient and medieval times; however, the colonial period destroyed the handloom industry and weavers. Britishers strategically broke the handloom industry by exporting raw material from India and selling finished textile products back to India, which consequently affected the Indian economy. The significance of the Indian handloom was recognized later and became a huge part of the freedom struggle, thus establishing the Swadeshi Movement in 1905 for revival of the Indian Handloo.
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Indian Textiles is several centuries old and is an economically significant sector of the country. Handloom is seen as one of the most vibrant Indian cultural heritage that has an important place in the textile industry. As per rd 3 Handloom census, the sector enfolds around 43 lakhs people engaged in weaving and allied activities that majorly constituent rural and semi rural livelihood. It's a cottage industry of India comprising mostly women of about 77%. Despite of being an important sector that supports one of the largest chunks of unorganized sectors of the country it's withering at the hands of modernity. In the era of Power-loom and Technical Textiles the Indian Handloom sector needs revitalization to survive. It is high time to safe guard Handloom sector with innovation and revival to defend the livelihood of unorganized workers, preserve the rich Indian heritage and make the sector a significant contributor of Economic transformation of India. This paper is a compar.
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Indian hand-woven fabrics have existed since beyond the reach of memory. This sector involves large number of artisans from rural and semi-urban areas, most of which are women and people from economically disadvantaged groups. Some of the strengths of this industry are availability of cheap and abundant labour, use of local resources, low capital investment, unique craftsmanship in manufacturing of the products and increasing appreciation by international consumers. It is important to note that despite such unique characteristics, the industry comprises a meager proportion of Indian exports in global market, thus calling for efforts to promote and channelize the offerings of the industry to tap its hidden potential. The present study is an effort to bring out the cultural importance of this precious handloom, by giving an overview of its history, role of handloom before and after Independence, revival of handloom, process and varieties of handloom prevailing in India.
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Handlooms, a traditional wear in India has lost its significance slowly with the advent of low cost and eye catchy synthetic materials. However, with the notion of 'Make in India' campaign and the planning commission giving it a due place in the economic sector under other priority sectors is regaining its unique identity. USA, UK, Germany and France are among the top ten countries to where the Indian handloom products exported. The Indian government launched Handloom brand to ensure its uniqueness, flexibility of production, openness to innovations, adaptability. The number of handloom weaver households decreased in the third handloom census compared to that of second. So as to support weavers the Indian government launched schemes and initiated exhibitions, crafts museum, trade facilitation centre and E-commerce. Market research on the Handlooms identified the need for publicity, availability, Handloom designer dresses and awareness campaigns on a large scale for its sustenance.
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International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology
Handloom industry assumes a significant part in the improvement of the country prudent situation of Chhattisgarh. It is one of the largest financial method giving direct work to bigger number of people occupied with weaving work. The investigation is graphic in nature in which strategy for perception and overview has been taken on. The research is directed to know the convergence of handloom ventures in Northern, Southern and Central Regions of Chhattisgarh regarding the quantity of weaving co-usable social orders worked, number of dynamic weaving machines and number of weavers utilized. The research zeroed in on the most and least handloom creation units of Chhattisgarh. The research tracks down that Central Region of Chhattisgarh comprises of most extreme hand-loom units. The research additionally investigates that the expansion in number of weaving co-agents and dynamic weavers in expanded number of weavers which, later on expansion underway of handloom items. At last, it uncovers that among all locale, Janjgir-Champa gains greatest handloom creation and their kosa/Tussar textures have left an imprint in the homegrown just as the global market.
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Handloom weaving is the second most important livelihood in rural India after farming. Improving handloom technologies and practices thus will directly affect the lives of millions of Indians, and this is similar for many other communities in the global South and East. By analyzing handloom weaving as a socio-technology, we will show how weaving communities are constantly innovating their technologies, designs, markets and social organization—often without calling it innovation. This demonstration of innovation in handloom contradicts the received image of handloom as a pre-modern and traditional craft that is unsustainable in current societies and that one therefor needs to get rid of: by mechanization and/or by putting it into a museum. With this research we seek to address three related issues. The first is to deepen our theoretical understanding of innovation by exploring it in supposedly non-innovating contexts, second is the relevance of history of technology for understanding handloom and indeed other crafts as sophisticated socio-technologies. The third is to explore how this broadening of the concept of innovation can inform an inclusive politics of development that positions craft within the innovation framework, rather than in the discourse of traditional technology in need of modernization or preservation. We show how innovations are shaped in interactions between individuals across different user groups and communities by describing the socio-technical ensemble of handloom weaving. This allows us to identify product, market and process innovations in handloom. These innovations include the use of mobile phones to innovate new markets, and the use of computers to speed up calculative functions so that slower and more skilled work can be taken up by weavers, while keeping the product cost-effective.
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Handloom industry is one of the most important segments of Indian textile industry. It is not only the important part of Indian textile industry but also an important part of Indian legacy. Handloom products have been playing an important role in Indian economy since a long time. It is one of the largest economic activities providing direct or indirect employment to a large segment of persons engaged in weaving and allied activities. However, as per the latest census of handloom, the number of persons engaged in weaving and allied activities was lower than the earlier one. Hence there is an urgent need to revive this industry. There is a need to give attention to the point that what could be done as a designer, as a researcher and as a marketer to revive this industry not only in international market but also at the grass root level. This paper mainly deals with the present status of handloom industry to emphasise what could be done further.
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Journal of Textile Engineering & Fashion Technology
Handlooms and Handicrafts are one of the most important cottage industries in the country giving livelihood to most of rural India. A number of handlooms in India are engaged in weaving with natural fibers such as cotton, silk, and wool. Most of the villages in India are directly or indirectly dependent for their bread and butter on the handloom and handicraft sector. This sector carries proudly the traditional beauty associated with India's such precious heritage. A research study on one of the silk handloom sectors situated in a small village named Bhagaiya in Jharkhand was carried out with an objective to gather considered data and references reflecting the aspects and aspirations of this lively craft and its position in the region. The ambition of the research is to add perspective to the development of this craft and the craftsmen associated with it. The study was carried out with the intention to understand the existing supply chain, to gain insight through a diagnostic st.
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BHNP: History of Industry Development (Topic)
Handloom industry provides widest employment opportunities in West Bengal, where 5.8% of the households involved have been found to be silk handloom weavers, which bears a rich legacy. Shantipur and Phulia in Nadia district are the two major handloom concentrated areas in West Bengal. The main objective of this paper is to make a situational analysis of the handloom workers by focusing on the problems of the handloom weavers of Nadia district. The paper briefly elaborates the historical perspective of handloom clusters over this region at the backdrop of the then Bengal. It also analyzes the present crisis faced by the weavers of Phulia and Shantipur region of Nadia district. It makes a SWOT analysis of the handloom industry where strength, weakness, opportunity and threat of the handlooms sector has been analyzed. The paper recommends several measures like awareness campaign, financial literacy programme, SHG and consortium formation, common facility centre, dye house, market expos.
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