International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 2

A study on production of a saree and various schemes available to handloom weavers

  • Author:
  • A. Venkateswaran
  • Total Page Count: 15
  • Page Number: 140 to 154

Research Scholar, Assistant professor, Commerce, Ambai Arts college, Ambasamudram-627401, Tirunelveli Dist. Tamil Nadu, India

Online published on 11 June, 2014.

Abstract

Handlooms have been known to India right from the historic ages. Basic needs of the human being are the food, clothes and shelter. In the basic needs clothing is one of the essential one. Our south Indian culture is to wear saree. Saree is weaved by a group of people called savarashtra. Their native is Gujarat more number of people are engaged in weaving. Generally speaking these people adopt in weaving cotton and silk saree. Quite a large number of sourashtrians have gone down in the history of India independence owing to this patriotic fervor. The present work was undertaken to collect the information about the saree weaving, process of weaving techniques, various scheme available to handloom weavers.