This sari is made entirely of rice straw and weed and took around two and a half years to complete. […]
Rice Straw Sari
Innovation Category: Textile, Weaving, Spinning, Khadi
Table Loom
The gayatri Table loom is an excellent choice for all weavers from the beginner to the most experienced multishaft designer. Its ability to fold makes it perfect for workshops or home use and those with floor looms will find it a wonderful loom for testing samples. The loom is available in either 15 or 21 […]
Namda Rolling Machine
Rolling of Kashmiri Namda (Felted rug) is a tiresome job that takes hours and a lot of efforts from artisans.To overcome this hectic process in its rolling, Zufa Iqbal the innovator has successfully designed a prototype model for rolling and manufacturing a Namda. The model, Zafa says works on the principle of rotation and relative […]
Stackable and Portable Loom
With the help of an additional grant from CtoK, Shabir is now CHANGING THE PROCESS OF WEAVING with his next innovative loom, a modernised version of his earlier invention of the portable loom. With the new loom weighing only 13 kg and costing Rs6800 vis-a-via the traditional loom which costs Rs10,000, this new loom is […]
Fan Operated Without Electricity And Motor, Attached to Hand Operated Loom
The fan’s blades are connected to the loom and works when the handloom weaver pulls the lever on the loom.The fan thus, works with the loom providing a cool breeze to the weaver. […]
Aloe-vera Fibre Saris
The use of aloe vera fibre had proved successful as the weavers were able to weave sarees and shirt material. The Anakaputhur branch of Indian Bank had come forward to fund the weavers. The Department of Industries and Commerce of the State government had evinced keen interest in the project, the weavers told reporters. “With […]
Banana Yarn
With the technological know-how, they have made 100 percent pure banana fibre sarees and sold hundreds of such sarees in last couple of years. The demand for such saris is increasing and getting a yarn round the year became hiccup to upscale the activities. According to Mr. Sekar, about 500 grams of yawn is required […]
Revival of Dyeing Skills
The natural dyes add shine to the colors and have an advantage of getting wide variety of colours and tones and shades (except white and pink). The colors have better lustre and are transparent as compared to the synthetic ones. Probably the titanium dioxide reduces the lustre in synthetic dyes. It is also possible that […]
Automatic Sari Border Weft Insertion
The automated system is somewhat similar based to the ?Catch Cord Technique drawing device for looms? (United States Patent 4616680, 1984 )though he was not aware of it. No assistant is In this technique, ?Multi Catch Cords? are used to make ?Temple Borders?. The number of catch cords is equal to the number of steps […]
Design Making by Weft Insertion
Conventionally the task of insertion of weft threads needed to make a variety of design is to be done manually by tying knots , which is tedious , cumbersome and time consuming. The thread is also wasted in the connection between one motif to another. The device developed innovator is consists of three components, base […]