Handlooms and Weavers for the 21th Century.


Today in many parts of the world handlooms are exclusively viewed as relics for museums, exhibition and village fairs.However In India handlooms,  continue to be part of everyday life.
A large percent of the population earns a living spinning, weaving and embellishing textiles, the majority of which are sold in the country. 
Surprising, given that a weaver easily spends two full days to produce one sari,a powerloom will do the same in few hours. Today weavers especially of handloom are declining, but the charm of handlooms products have not.
We indians valuing handlooms it's because of our Sanatana Dharma heritage, the phrase Chakra
(energetic hotspot in the human body) is etymologically linked to charka (spinning wheel), suggesting the importance of spinning and weaving for maintaining balance. The Indian philosophy of Tantra signifies weaving and uses it as a metaphor for the interaction of male and female energies (the warp and weft, which come together to create fabric). The different stages of weaving engages the entire body in precise, rapid and repetitive gestures that can be like meditation.
As global economies grow and people become more interconnected, there is an increasing demand for new 21st century skills, for integrating diverse knowledge, and for developing the capacity to be creative, innovative and entrepreneurial. Young weavers have a great need for specialized education that bridges the gap between traditional skills and new competencies.
Our community institutions ought to ensure Handlooms lucrative and desirable to youngsters as any other profession, so that they rediscover pride and reverence for their craft. This would impede the massive exodus to quit the vocation and create young ambassadors of handloom to carry this age-old tradition forward.
The art of weaving by loom could hold the key to producing stronger and more complex carbon-fibre structures.What does a textile loom invented thousands of years ago, have to do with 21st-century aircraft engines and high-performance cars?
It turns out the centuries-old art of weaving by loom holds the key to producing much stronger and more complex carbon-fibre composite structures. Composites are traditionally produced by placing layers of material on top of one another and infusing them with resin.
By using a loom to weave the material, engineers can introduce a reinforcing fibre running through the thickness of the fabric, to connect the layers together. This results in a 3D composite material that is better able to cope with impacts, or loads such as bending, without delaminating.What’s more, 3D weaving also allows you to produce more geometrically complex composite structures.
In the words of Sant Kabir,15th century poet,Icon of the Bhakti movement and master weaver:

Jhini jhini bini chadariya,

Kaahe ka tana, kaahe ki bharani,

Kaun taar se bini chadariya ?

“Fine, fine cloth, delicately woven

Of what is made the warp, of what the weave?

What threads went into its weaving?”

Completed by
GaviRangappa S P.
Devanga's Vidhana.
Jai Devanga.

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