Vani and Prasad live in a village called
Mukhtapur. Their home is always filled with bundles of bright coloured threads.
Their mother and father and everyone else in the family, are weavers.
The weaving that they do is very
beautiful and special. Mukhtapur village is in the Pochampallidistrict of Andhra Pradesh. Most of the families in this district are weavers.
Process of making pochampalli sarees. That is why the special cloth that they weave
is called Pochampalli.
The villagers have been doing this work since a long
time. Vani and Prasad’s parents learnt weaving from their elders.
Now Vani and Prasad also help their parents after coming back from school. This weaving requires hard work, and many different things have to be done before actually weaving. From thread to Cloth From thread to Cloth.
Father brings bundles of thread from
Pochampalli city. Mother then puts these threads in boiling water to wash away
the dirt and stains.
Then everybody works to dye the thread
with bright colours. These threads are then dried and rolled into bundles.
These bundles are put onto looms and the cloth is woven.
Silk cloth and silk sarees are woven
from the silk thread. Cotton thread is used to weave cotton sarees, cloth,
sheets etc.
The weavers weave the beautiful
Pochampalli sarees in bright colours. Through their traditional craft they have
made their region world famous.
After all this, it is difficult to get a
good price for these sarees. Silk is becoming expensive day-by-day.
Big shopkeepers give very little money
for the sarees, though they themselves sell them at very high price. That is
why many weavers are giving up their family craft.
Many are leaving their villages to work as
labourers in big cities. We need to solve this problem by helping them get a
better price. Otherwise, this precious craft will be lost forever.
There are many For the teacher: places
like Pochampalli in India that are famous for making special things.
These things have become famous by the
name of the place where they are made, like – Kullu shawls, Madhubani
paintings, Assam silk, Kashmiri embroidery etc.
THANQ
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