Process

  • The artists purchase colorured and basic threads from local markets.
  • Clean the threads with rice starch and fixer for enhancing the quality and durability of the threads’ colour.
  • Keep the wet threads in sunlight for drying.
  • Then they roll the threads of warp in a bobbin 
  • Then dramming the warp outside their houses
  • Then they set the warp in the loom according to the design 
  • Then they roll the threads of weft in a bobbin 
  • Then they start weaving to set the loom properly. After having a proper idea about the loom setting they start weaving.
  • They make motifs by using their hand which is called extra weft.