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Strawberry 32x32 The Weavers of Vellore - http://desilot.com

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Old 01-22-2012, 10:29 AM
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div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"div style="font-family: Times,quot;Times New Romanquot;,serif;"span style="font-size: small;"Tamil Nadu is span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"oneof the most important centres for the handloom *****try.nbsp; /spanThere about 22 handloom clusters in the state. bKamakshi Math/b in the district of Vellore is part of this cluster. /span/divdiv style="font-family: Times,quot;Times New Romanquot;,serif;"span style="font-size: small;"The village is known for it's bweaving *****try/b. It is generally carried out on a small scale by highly-skilled artisans of the span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"iKallakars/iand iSenguthar Mudaliar/i community.nbsp;/span/span/divdiv style="font-family: Times,quot;Times New Romanquot;,serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"br //span/span/divdiv style="font-family: Times,quot;Times New Romanquot;,serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"The process of weaving involves:/span/span/divdiv style="font-family: Times,quot;Times New Romanquot;,serif;"span style="font-size: small;"br //span/divdiv style="font-family: Times,quot;Times New Romanquot;,serif;"span style="font-size: small;"bspan lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"Step #1/span/b/span/divdiv style="font-family: Times,quot;Times New Romanquot;,serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;" Organic cotton is procured from Gujurat./span/span/divspan style="font-size: small;"br //spanbr /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"span style="font-size: small;"a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JLAeOt9OdjM/Txu4cHhpvhI/AAAAAAAAC2Y/1wgcKBiiCVo/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="426" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JLAeOt9OdjM/Txu4cHhpvhI/AAAAAAAAC2Y/1wgcKBiiCVo/s640/2.jpg" width="640" //a/span/divspan style="font-size: small;"br //spanbr /div style="font-family: Times,quot;Times New Romanquot;,serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"bStep #2/b/span/span/divdiv style="font-family: Times,quot;Times New Romanquot;,serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"bSpinning. /bUsing a spinning wheel, threads are drawn out and wound into bobbins.nbsp;/span/span/divdiv style="font-family: Times,quot;Times New Romanquot;,serif;"span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: small;"This is followed by the process of bdyeing/b. However, this process is not carried out within the workshop./span/divspan style="font-size: small;"br //spanbr /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"span style="font-size: small;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_4LWl1vCKTE/Txu4_GHk5QI/AAAAAAAAC2g/8f17KazTTYg/s1600/6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="426" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_4LWl1vCKTE/Txu4_GHk5QI/AAAAAAAAC2g/8f17KazTTYg/s640/6.jpg" width="640" //a/span/divbr /span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: quot;Times New Romanquot;,quot;serifquot;; font-size: small;"span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"bStep #3/b/span/spanbr /div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"div style="font-family: Times,quot;Times New Romanquot;,serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"bWarping. /bSeries of yarns are extended lengthwise using a warp-weighted loom. The loom helps create tension, thus making the warp threads taut./span/spanbr //div/divspan lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: quot;Times New Romanquot;,quot;serifquot;; font-size: small;"b /b/spanbr /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"span style="font-size: small;"a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qzK6Idy6AME/TxvA1memxkI/AAAAAAAAC2w/_ruWdOCvhXQ/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="426" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qzK6Idy6AME/TxvA1memxkI/AAAAAAAAC2w/_ruWdOCvhXQ/s640/4.jpg" width="640" //a/span/divspan lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: quot;Times New Romanquot;,quot;serifquot;; font-size: small;"b /b/spanbr /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"span style="font-size: small;"a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eXr7aqQLiz0/TxvAyie7P4I/AAAAAAAAC2o/g_nYMRPFRoo/s1600/5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eXr7aqQLiz0/TxvAyie7P4I/AAAAAAAAC2o/g_nYMRPFRoo/s640/5.jpg" width="426" //a/span/divspan lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: quot;Times New Romanquot;,quot;serifquot;; font-size: small;"br /span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"bStep #4/b/span/spanbr /span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: quot;Times New Romanquot;,quot;serifquot;; font-size: small;"span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"b style="font-family: Times,quot;Times New Romanquot;,serif;"nbsp;Wefting. /bspan style="font-family: Times,quot;Times New Romanquot;,serif;"The process of wefting uses a handloom to weave in the horizontal threads. The machine keeps the vertical threads taut in order to facilitate the process.nbsp;/span /span/spanbr /span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: quot;Times New Romanquot;,quot;serifquot;; font-size: small;"br //spanbr /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"span style="font-size: small;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v7Exa2SiMgI/TxvDaHWus9I/AAAAAAAAC24/B5vUm3NkclY/s1600/7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="464" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v7Exa2SiMgI/TxvDaHWus9I/AAAAAAAAC24/B5vUm3NkclY/s640/7.jpg" width="640" //a/span/divspan lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: quot;Times New Romanquot;,quot;serifquot;; font-size: small;"br //spanbr /div style="font-family: Times,quot;Times New Romanquot;,serif;"span style="font-size: small;"bspan lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"Step #5/span/b/span/divdiv style="font-family: Times,quot;Times New Romanquot;,serif;"span style="font-size: small;"bspan lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"Garments. /span/bspan lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"Once the warp and weft threads are interlaced, cloth is created.nbsp; The process of weaving takes about 4-5 days./span/span/divspan style="font-family: Times,quot;Times New Romanquot;,serif; font-size: small;"span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"The finished product is then sent to the workshops where garment samples are created./span/spanspan style="font-size: small;"bspan lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: quot;Times New Romanquot;,quot;serifquot;;"br //span/b/spanbr /span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: quot;Times New Romanquot;,quot;serifquot;; font-size: small;"br //spanbr /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"span style="font-size: small;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZRXbLt4qZNc/TxvEBTmT8zI/AAAAAAAAC3A/rX_aDdHW5WY/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="464" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZRXbLt4qZNc/TxvEBTmT8zI/AAAAAAAAC3A/rX_aDdHW5WY/s640/1.jpg" width="640" //a/span/divspan style="font-size: small;"br //spanbr /div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: quot;Times New Romanquot;,quot;serifquot;; font-size: small;"/spanspan lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: small;" /span/divdiv class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,quot;Times New Romanquot;,serif; text-align: justify;"span style="font-size: small;"span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"The garments created in these workshops cater mainly to thebinternational markets./b Tamil Nadu exports most of its cotton to the UK and the US. The government is doing itsbest to promote the handloom *****try by means of its bschemes and policies/b. /span/span/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3705589760064952033-2660180575816038580?l=purple-peeptoes.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
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