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<h2><a id="30671" linktype="page">Along the Majuli silk route</a></h2><p>Rearing silkworms and weaving silk has long been an important livelihood in Assam. Here in Majuli, eri silk is a prized variety, its future frayed by the advent of cheap machine-made silks</p><h5>November 30, 2024 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/prakash-bhuyan/">Prakash Bhuyan</a></h5>

Along the Majuli silk route

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/picking-up-the-threads-of-patola/">Picking up the threads of patola</a></h2><h2><p></p></h2><h2><p></p></h2><h2><p></p></h2><p>On National Handloom Day on August 7, we bring a photo story about handwoven patola from Gujarat. Silk sarees known for their single and double ikat weave and intricate designs are a product of days of hard labour and complex processes<br/></p><h5>August 07, 2024 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/umesh-solanki/">Umesh Solanki</a></h5>

Picking up the threads of patola

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/the-dhurrie-weavers-of-ghanda-bana/">The dhurrie weavers of Ghanda Bana</a></h2><h2><p></p></h2><h2><p></p></h2><h2><p></p></h2><p>In Punjab&#39;s Bathinda district, Majidan Begum and Qarsaed Begum are well known for the intricately-woven rugs they craft from a variety of materials<br/></p><h5>July 18, 2024 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/anubha-bhonsle-and-sanskriti-talwar/">Sanskriti Talwar</a></h5>

The dhurrie weavers of Ghanda Bana

<h2></h2><h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/the-warp-and-weft-of-rekha-bens-life/">The warp and weft of Rekha Ben’s life</a></h2><p></p><h2><p></p></h2><h2><p></p></h2><p>In Mota Timbla village, single mother Rekha Vaghela weaves her complex life story alongside Gujarat’s patola – handwoven silk fabrics, often sarees, known for their intricate double ikat weave<br/></p><h5>July 11, 2024 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/umesh-solanki/">Umesh Solanki</a></h5>

The warp and weft of Rekha Ben’s life

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/assams-gamusa-weavers-are-in-trouble/">Assam’s gamusa weavers are in trouble</a><p></p></h2><h2><p></p></h2><h2><p></p></h2><p>A knotted carpet from this district in Uttar Pradesh graces the walls of the new Parliament building in Delhi. But weavers who practise this distinct craft are switching to other professions<br/></p><h5>June 27, 2024 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/shreya-kanoi/">Shreya Kanoi</a></h5>

Assam’s gamusa weavers are in trouble

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/mirzapurs-carpet-weavers-tied-up-in-knots/">Mirzapur’s carpet weavers: tied up in knots</a><p></p></h2><h2><p></p></h2><p>A knotted carpet from this district in Uttar Pradesh graces the walls of the new Parliament building in Delhi. But weavers who practise this distinct craft are switching to other professions<br/></p><h5>June 27, 2024 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/shreya-kanoi/">Shreya Kanoi</a></h5>

Mirzapur’s carpet weavers: tied up in knots

<h2><a id="29084" linktype="page">The kamalkosh cane mat tells a story </a></h2><h2><p></p></h2><p>Prabhati Dhar is a master weaver of mats that incorporate auspicious motifs like banana trees and peacocks. Weaving a kamalkosh is a rare skill and one that she is passing on to younger people here in Cooch Behar district of West Bengal<br/></p><h5>June 27, 2024 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/shreya-kanoi/">Shreya Kanoi</a></h5>

The kamalkosh cane mat tells a story

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/the-last-handloom-weaver-of-gobindapur/">The last handloom weaver of Gobindapur</a></h2><h2><p></p></h2><p>It was sarees that Roopchand Debnath first wove as a young man; today, he weaves shorter and less complex gamchas on his loom in Tripura. Other weavers have moved away as the drop in income and lack of support from the state have made weaving unsustainable, but this septuagenarian is not deserting his loom<br/></p><h5>May 05, 2024 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/rajdeep-bhowmik/">Rajdeep Bhowmik</a> and <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/deep-roy/">Deep Roy</a><p></p></h5>

The last handloom weaver of Gobindapur

<h2><a id="27060" linktype="page">The tangled skeins of Rajbhoi rope makers</a></h2><h2><p></p></h2><p>Discarded textile fibres are turned into ropes of all sizes by women from this nomadic community. They travel to different parts of Gujarat buying up waste fibres, journeying across the state in trains at night<br/></p><h5>March 10, 2024 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/umesh-solanki/">Umesh Solanki</a></h5>

The tangled skeins of Rajbhoi rope makers

<h2><a id="24795" linktype="page">In Karadaga, jali making hangs by a thread</a><br/><p></p></h2><p>It takes over 300 feet of cotton thread and 60 hours of knitting to make a traditional jali, a sling bag used by Dhangar shepherds. The art of handmaking this symmetrical bag now rests with only a few pastoralists like Siddu Gavade in Karnataka<br/></p><h5>September 25, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/sanket-jain/">Sanket Jain</a></h5>

In Karadaga, jali making hangs by a thread

<h2><a id="24449" linktype="page">Pattu weaving is fraying at the edges</a></h2><p>In Kashmir’s Gurez valley, a small and ageing population of weavers from the Dard-Shin community struggle to keep their traditional craft alive<br/></p><h5>August 25, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/ufaq-fatima/">Ufaq Fatima</a></h5>

Pattu weaving is fraying at the edges

<h2><a id="24151" linktype="page">Kotpad sarees: a weave in time</a></h2><p>During National Handloom Week, we look at how competition from cheaper products is threatening the livelihood of Odisha’s skilled Kotpad weavers<br/></p><h5>August 12, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/kavita-carneiro/">Kavita Carneiro</a></h5><p></p>

Kotpad sarees: a weave in time

<h2><a id="23724" linktype="page">Chalangi’s skilled chatai weaver</a></h2><p>Jolen Sanga weaves and stiches seamless mats with date palm leaves. A Munda Adivasi from Jharkhand, she is a single parent and agricultural worker<br/></p><h5>July 16, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/anjani-sanga/">Anjani Sanga</a></h5>

Chalangi’s skilled chatai weaver

<h2><a id="23786" linktype="page">&#39;I work for days and earn nothing&#39;</a><br/></h2><p>Women who spin thread for pashmina products earn very little for this highly skilled work. A traditional occupation, it now has few takers among the younger generation<br/></p><h5>July 12, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/muzamil-bhat/">Muzamil Bhat</a></h5>

'I work for days and earn nothing'

<h2><a id="18917" linktype="page">‘My hands still have life’</a></h2><p></p><p>Bapu Sutar, the last remaining wooden treadle handloom maker of Rendal in Maharashtra&#39;s Kolhapur district, reminisces about a craft that died six decades ago in his village</p><h5>August 1, 2022 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/sanket-jain/">Sanket Jain</a></h5><p></p>

‘My hands still have life’

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/varanasi-weavers-facing-a-string-of-setbacks/"><b>Varanasi weavers: facing a string of setbacks</b></a></h2><p>It&#39;s been hard days for powerloom weavers in the city&#39;s Bazardiha cluster – with lockdowns and monsoon flooding. But it’s the UP government’s review of their electricity subsidy that has them the most worried</p><h5>October 28, 2021 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/samiksha/">Samiksha</a></h5><p></p>

Varanasi weavers: facing a string of setbacks

<h2><a id="11021" linktype="page">Karnataka silk route: cocoon farmers in crisis</a></h2><p></p><p></p><p>At Asia’s largest cocoon market in Ramanagara, Karnataka, a lockdown-driven steep fall in prices and disruption of the demand-supply chain has badly hit weavers, reelers and, particularly, silkworm farmers</p><p></p><h5>June 21, 2020 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/tamanna-naseer/">Tamanna Naseer</a></h5><p></p>

Karnataka silk route: cocoon farmers in crisis

<h2><a id="10702" linktype="page">MP weavers hanging by a Chanderi thread  </a></h2><p>The Covid-19 lockdown has brought the centuries-old Chanderi fabric trade in MP&#39;s Chanderi town to a standstill. Many weavers like Suresh Koli are in a fix due to no demand, unpaid dues and depleting resources</p><h5>May 7, 2020 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/mohit-m-rao/">Mohit M. Rao</a></h5>

MP weavers hanging by a Chanderi thread

<h2><a id="10675" linktype="page">In lockdown, this is no country for old men</a></h2><p></p><p>A repairman, a weaver and a ropemaker – a Muslim, an Adivasi, and a Dalit, highly-skilled craftsmen – in Belagavi, Karnataka and Kolhapur, Maharashtra. All of them elderly and without work under the lockdown</p><p></p><h5>May 4, 2020 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/sanket-jain/">Sanket Jain</a></h5><p></p><p></p>

In lockdown, this is no country for old men

<h2><a id="10480" linktype="page">Locking down craft: handmade, hung out to dry</a></h2><p>Craftspeople all over the country have been hit hard by the Covid-19 lockdown. PARI speaks to weavers, dyers, toymakers and village artists from north, south, east, west and central India to gauge the fallout</p><h5>April 7, 2020 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/priti-david/">Priti David</a></h5>

Locking down craft: handmade, hung out to dry

<h2><a id="7087" linktype="page">A life measured in metres and yards</a></h2><p></p><p>Only four weavers – among them 82-year-old Vasant Tambe – remain in Rendal village of Maharashtra&#39;s Kolhapur district, where thriving handloom karkhanas gave way to falling demand and powerlooms</p><h5>July 5, 2019 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/sanket-jain">Sanket Jain</a> </h5><p></p>

A life measured in metres and yards

<h2><a id="6762" linktype="page">Pulling out threads for 500 minutes every day</a></h2><p>Women from Odisha who work from home for the multi-crore textile industry in Surat, Gujarat, are not covered by labour laws, are unable to negotiate better rates, and are seen as unskilled workers</p><h5>June 25, 2019 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/reetika-revathy-subramanian">Reetika Revathy Subramanian</a></h5>

Pulling out threads for 500 minutes every day

<h2><a id="6735" linktype="page">Kuthampully weavers: off-white to darkness?</a></h2><p>For centuries, they have created Kerala&#39;s classic off-white and gold sarees and veshtis. Now, low incomes, an ageing workforce, shifting demand and powerlooms are forcing changes in this traditional occupation</p><h5>June 19, 2019 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/remya-padmadas">Remya Padmadas</a></h5>

Kuthampully weavers: off-white to darkness?

<h2><a id="6643" linktype="page">Weaving the story of the pashmina shawl</a></h2><p>From Changthangi goats in the Tibetan Plateau to retail stores in Srinagar, the making of the pashmina shawl involves many – pastorialists, wholesalers, spinners, dyers, designers, embroiderers and entrepreneurs<br/></p><h5>May 27, 2019 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/prabir-mitra">Prabir Mitra</a></h5>

Weaving the story of the pashmina shawl

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/copying-our-designs-is-not-correct">&#39;Copying our designs is not correct&#39;</a></h2><p>Despite a GI certification, the distinctive Toda embroidery of the Nilgiris is being widely copied. This, along with the falling numbers of artisans and a lack of collective action, are adding to the craft’s uncertain future</p><h5>May 17, 2019 |<a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/priti-david"> Priti David</a></h5>

'Copying our designs is not correct'

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/labouring-at-the-looms-of-onnupuram">Labouring at the looms of Onnupuram</a></h2><p>Almost every house in this village in Tamil Nadu has a handloom, and the bundles of colourless thread that enter Onnupuram leave for high-end showrooms in Chennai and other markets as rich silk sarees</p><h5>May 16, 2019 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/anusha-sundar">Anusha Sundar</a></h5>

Labouring at the looms of Onnupuram

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/weaving-a-future-metre-by-metre">Weaving a future, metre by metre</a></h2><p>In the villages of Chirang district in Assam, where every Bodo home has a loom, Sama Brahma earns a modest income from weaving, and is trying to pass on this waning traditional skill to her daughters</p><h5>January 3, 2019 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/anne-pinto-rodrigues">Anne Pinto-Rodrigues</a></h5>

Weaving a future, metre by metre

<h2><a id="5753" linktype="page">Stitching together an upturn in Sittilingi valley</a></h2><p>Lambadi women in Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu have painstakingly revived &#39;ghater&#39;, their community’s signature embroidery, and the income from this traditional skill has ended their need to migrate for work</p><h5>December 14, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/priti-david">Priti David</a></h5>

Stitching together an upturn in Sittilingi valley

<h2><a id="5506" linktype="page">Living in the rooms by the looms</a></h2><p></p><p>Around 8 lakh workers from Odisha, after strenuous shifts in Surat’s powerlooms, stay in rotation in crowded rooms, amid power cuts, scarce water, filth and noise. Illnesses are common, as are stress and alcoholism</p><h5>October 22, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/reetika-revathy-subramanian">Reetika Revathy Subramanian</a></h5><p></p><p></p>

Living in the rooms by the looms

<h2><a id="5393" linktype="page">The great Indian vanishing rope trick</a></h2><p></p><p>Rope makers were once part of a thriving trade in rural Maharashtra. Now, farmers rarely buy ropes and many others prefer nylon versions. The Bhores are the last family in Boragaon village still hand-crafting rope</p><h5>September 26, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/sanket-jain">Sanket Jain</a></h5><p></p>

The great Indian vanishing rope trick

<h2><a id="5129" linktype="page">Laxmibai’s skills hang by a rough thread</a></h2><p>PARI volunteer Sanket Jain aims to traverse 300 villages across India and, among other stories, produce this feature: a photograph of a rural scene or event and a sketch of that photograph. This is the ninth in the series on PARI. Draw the slider either way to see the photo or sketch in full</p><h5>July 17, 2018 |  <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/sanket-jain">Sanket Jain</a></h5>

Laxmibai’s skills hang by a rough thread

<h2><a id="4969" linktype="page">Synthetic fabric, authentic despair</a></h2><p></p><p>Lakhs of migrant workers from Ganjam in Odisha who operate powerlooms in Surat, the country’s polyester capital, risk serious injuries and accidental deaths every day. But desperate for work, they continue</p><p></p><h5>June 12, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/reetika-revathy-subramanian">Reetika Revathy Subramanian</a></h5>

Synthetic fabric, authentic despair

<h2><a id="3945" linktype="page">From creating carpets to crushing stones</a></h2><p></p><p>Women of the Bhotiya community in Uttarakhand’s Gothi hamlet earn an income by breaking quarried stones – and recall a time when their weaving skills brought them respect as well as financial returns</p><h5>October 31, 2017 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/arpita-chakrabarty">Arpita Chakrabarty</a></h5><p></p>

From creating carpets to crushing stones

<p></p><h2><a id="3142" linktype="page"><b>Tussar: the crumbling cocoon</b></a></h2><p>The old weaving skills of Banka district, Bihar, are vanishing due to low returns, poor state support and cheaper imports. Only a few families in Katoria village still weave. This film features some of them</p><h5>July 7, 2017 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/shreya-katyayni">Shreya Katyayini</a></h5><p></p>

Tussar: the crumbling cocoon

<h2><b><a id="2726" linktype="page">Ladaiti&#39;s colours speak, her designs draw smiles</a></b></h2><p>Ladaiti Devi of Salmata village in Uttarakhand is a self-assured and wise warrior, who other women look up to. She tried many ways of earning some money despite her family’s displeasure, until she found her calling in weaving durries – and now her fingers weave a magic that is locally renowned</p><h5>May 10, 2017 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/puja-awasthi">Puja Awasthi</a></h5>

Ladaiti's colours speak, her designs draw smiles

<p></p><h2><b><a id="2724" linktype="page">&#39;The loom is my love, my legacy&#39;</a></b></h2>When he is not farming, Tsering Angchuk of Sneymo village in Ladakh travels with his portable loom to other villages to weave his highly-reputed signature version of a woollen fabric called ‘snamboo’<p></p><h5>May 9, 2017 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/stanzin-saldon">Stanzin Saldon</a></h5>

'The loom is my love, my legacy'

<h2><b><a id="2685" linktype="page">Threadbare in Santipur</a></b></h2><p>The handloom weavers of Santipur in West Bengal’s Nadia district have been pushed into a corner by powerlooms and declining incomes – many have left the looms, others are in constant debt</p><h5>April 19, 2017 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/sinchita-maji">Sinchita Maji</a></h5>

Threadbare in Santipur

<p></p><h2><b><a id="2637" linktype="page">‘Without khadi, I am not there’</a></b></h2>Despite the slow decline of the renowned handlooms of Dharmavaram, Shankara Dhanunjaya tried to work hard and prosper. But in 2016, at the age of 35, debt and crushing policy changes drove him to suicide<p></p><h5>March 28, 2017 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/rahul-m">Rahul M.</a></h5>

‘Without khadi, I am not there’

<h2><b><a id="2498" linktype="page">A muted ‘maggam’, a bleeding block print</a></b></h2><p>Most of the handloom weavers in Pedana in Andhra Pradesh are elderly, as are many of the town’s Kalamkari printers – a lack of state support and poor incomes have impacted both industries and forced the younger generation to migrate for work</p><h5>January 27, 2017 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/rahul-maganti">Rahul Maganti</a></h5>

A muted ‘maggam’, a bleeding block print

<h2><a id="1776" linktype="page"><b>Rogan Josh</b></a></h2><p>In Nirona village in Kutch, the Khatri family&#39;s passion for Rogan art has kept the tradition alive for 300 years</p><h5>August 22, 2016 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/jaimini-luharia">Jaimini Luharia</a></h5>

Rogan josh

<p></p><h2><b><a id="1267" linktype="page">Weaves of Maheshwar</a></b></h2>In Maheshwar town of Madhya Pradesh, weavers revive a declining craft<p></p><h5>May 2, 2016 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/nidhi-kamath-keya-vaswani">NIdhi Kamath &amp; Keya Vaswani</a></h5>

Weaves of Maheshwar

<p></p><h2><b><a id="1257" linktype="page">The warp, the weft, and the waning loom</a></b></h2>The skilled weavers of Arani, Tamil Nadu, work as helpers in canteens and on buses<p></p><h5>April 20, 2016 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/aparna-karthikeyan">Aparna Karthikeyan</a></h5>

The warp, the weft, and the waning loom

<p></p><h2><b><a id="1125" linktype="page">The fading weaves of Duajhar</a></b></h2>Weavers of Odisha speak of their waning craft and diminishing livelihoods<p></p><h5>December 20, 2015 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/purusottam-thakur">Purusottam Thakur</a></h5>

The fading weaves of Duajhar

<p>&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>The weavers of Walajapet</strong></h2><p>The story of M. Murugaiya and his family of weavers</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h5>December 16, 2014 |&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/sweta-daga">Sweta Daga</a></h5>

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