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Demand for ethnic saris abroad

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Textiles offered wide scope for introducing new fashion designs

ARTISTIC DISPLAY: S.Uma Maheswari, Managing Trustee, Sivapal Rural Artisans Welfare Trust, showing the saris designed by the trust, to guests at the Workshop on Design-Dyeing at Thanjavur on Wednesday. — Photo: M SRINATH

Thanjavur: Textiles offered wide scope for introducing new fashion designs, said Viswam, Art designer, Union ministry of textiles here.

Speaking at a workshop on textile design and dyeing by the Sivapal Rural Artisans Trust here recently, Viswam said that saris with ethnic designs have a good export market. He said that designs from royal clothes, ancient buildings, scripts and literature could add value to the textiles. Khudni sarees produced by weavers co-operative society at Ayyampettai has won national awards.

The All India Handloom Board, started Weavers Service Centres in 1956, was intended primarily as channels through which handloom production units could receive technical advice in the pre-loom, post-loom production processes. There were 24 such Weavers Service Centres functioning in the country. The functions of these centres are research, development, training, technical services, associating with state Government authorities in the implementation of various central Government benefit schemes.

Sivapal Rural Artisans Trust has trained lot of women and men in the field of textile designing and producing. Victims of Gujarat earthquake and tsunami are also beneficiaries of training given by the trust.

S. Uma Maheswari, Managing trustee and president of the trust explained the sarees designed by them to the participants. She lit a Kuthuvilakku to mark the inauguration.

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