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Bhagalpur sari is a silk sari made in Bhagalpur, India. [1] More than a century old, Tussar silk weaving industry in Bhagalpur has about 30,000 handloom weavers working on some 25,000 handlooms. The total value of annual trade is around Rs. 100 crores (one billion), about half of which comes from exports.
In the 2010 census, 4.4 million families were engaged in hand weaving. In December 2011, the handloom industry wove 6.9 billion square metres (74.3 billion square feet) of cloth. The economic policy in India aims to advance the handloom industry from the pre-independence period. The Textile Policy 1985 emphasized the promotion of handloom garments.
Shantipur Handloom Industry, also known Shantipur Handloom Cluster, [1] [2] is a handloom weaving industry in Nadia district of West Bengal. It is one of the foremost handloom centers of India. This handloom industry is world famous for the production of cotton Sari. The two main centers of this industrial zone are Shantipur and Phulia.
India exports yarn to Japan, United States, United Kingdom, Russia, France, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka and other countries. India has the second-largest installed capacity of spindles in the world, with 43.13 million spindles (30 March 2011) [25] after China. Although India has a large share in world trade of cotton yarn, its trade in garments ...
Every member of the weaver's family was involved in the weaving of Tangail sarees produced in undivided Bengal i.e. East-Bengal of British India. No weavers or laborers were hired, which was the practice of not letting the weaving technique go outside the weaver's family. The Basak families were the original saree weaving families of Tangail.
The Baluchari sari was one of the award winners for the main weaving styles amongst 34 National Awards for the years 2009 and 2010 presented by the Hon. President Pranab Mukherjee. [16] The Baluchari sari of Bankura was showcased at the India International Trade Fair organised at New Delhi.
Every saree takes up to three days for weaving and the weavers are paid ranging from ₹ 450 (US$5.30) to ₹ 850 (US$9.90) per saree. [7] The saree is weaved by traditional weaving families in the districts of Coimbatore, Tiruppur and Erode in the Kongu Nadu region of Tamil Nadu. [7] Sirumugai in Coimbatore district is the major producer of ...
[1] [4] The weaving tradition of Shantipur is recorded in the biographical manuscript of Sri Advaity Acharya (1460–1558) as Advaitya Mangal. [5] During the reign of Nadia Raj Rudra Roy (1683–94) and during the Mughal rule handloom weaving of Shantipur emerged as a traditional industry. During the reign of Raja Rudra Raya (1683–94) of ...