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HAND WORK: Women undergoing training in hand embroidery at a programme organised in Tiruchi on Friday. TIRUCHI: A common facility centre for handloom weavers, proposed as part of the Handloom Cluster project in Tiruchi district, would come up within a year, according to Ramesh Babu, Cluster Development Executive, Textiles Committee. The facility, to be set up at an investment of about Rs. 60 lakh, would come up in the Manamedu-Musiri belt. Construction of the centre would begin after land is allotted. It would house a computerised design centre, raw material bank, dyeing unit and other facilities for weavers, Mr. Babu said speaking on the sidelines of a training programme for women on hand embroidery for value addition in handloom textiles, organised by the committee and Magic Weavers here on Friday. A consortium of handloom weavers has already been formed at Manamedu as part of the project and the committee has acted as a facilitator in getting Rs.12 lakh worth orders over the past one year. A yarn depot has also been set up. The committee has already trained about 120 weavers in new products, which has resulted in a substantial wage increase for them. It has also decided to extend training in pure silk weaving and stitching through power machines. The committee has also proposed to involve women, especially students, in marketing handloom products. Fashion designing students are also to be involved in creating new designs. Poornadevi Srikanth of Magic Weaves, the resource person of Friday’s training programme, said about 100 women were trained in hand embroidery as machine embroidery caused wrinkles in handloom fabric. Hand embroidery would make for significant value addition in handloom textiles. The women, many of them members of self-help groups, were being trained in free-style embroidery in three motifs.
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