An Historical Overview of India's shuttle
Author: Akurathi Venkateswara Rao
Publisher: BFC Publications
Published: 2022-02-25
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 935509731X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The time-honored mode of interlacing of threads using a wooden country-made handloom for the production of a wide array of painstakingly hand-woven textiles with sole aid of manual labor, inherited skills and artistic imagery involving creative design interventions and alluring color ways had from times immemorial formed an integral part of the cultural ethos of people of India and its national heritage - a heritage that could withstand the onslaughts of the first, second and the on-going third Industrial Revolutions not to speak of quite some neglect by the exploitative European East India (trading) companies / alien rule from the sixteenth century onwards till India became independent of the British yoke on 15th of August, 1947.