Varanasi: To support the shrinking woven handloom industry that produces traditional fabrics prepared with pure natural fibers and zari, Master Sorbroiderer from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Asif Shaikh Backed Craft Design Society Art Foundation has begun school design and weave.
This school will provide free training to the elected youth of the Weaver background to study them as a masterweaver-cum-designer, which will be able to handle all the work from designing to manufacture according to the demands of domestic and international fashion markets, Shaikh said when talking to TOI about school inauguration here on Sunday.
“The demand for authentic banarasi handloom fabric is very high throughout the world.
However, the Banarasi Textile Industry Handloom sector has decreased at 8,000-10,000 looms, which is not enough to fulfill the request,” Shaikh said, known in the fashion industry to revive embroidery Old, highlighting how weaver shifts towards Powerloom press the handloom art.
Given the reality of land, he underwent a syllabus of all government and private institutions of textile and fashion technology, he added, after finding that there was a bit of focus on developing skills in craftsmen, he designed the course to carve masterweaver-cum designers.
“Under the CDA Art Foundation project, we decided to launch a school in this case with the financial assistance of BC Jindal Group.
There is no better place than Varanasi to launch it”, said Shaikh, said the school was starting a full time course for three years, With guaranteed work placement, looms and also provide markets for passed products, which should learn up to the minimum class X to join the course.
An old Zari manufacturer Shyam Sundar, who also helped this project and would make students conscious about the history of the weaving industry of banarasi and materials such as pure silk, Zari and others used in it, said, “Besides making noble learning students.
History and The tradition of the banner weaving industry, they will also be made aware of the requirements and demands of the industry by Local ‘Gaddidars’ (Banarasi Textile Traders).
“Shaikh said, students would learn to design for manual and computer work and also color combination art.
“Experts and international textile designers will also teach them in online and offline mode.
Students will be taught marketing methods, packaging and online presence to achieve domestic and international markets”, Shaikh said, adding these students to be skilled for Work without sacrificing weaving and design of Banarasi Handloom art.
The students will also be free from stationary fees, Shaikh said added, if the presence of students will remain above 80% for three months they will be honored in their bank account.
Before the formal opening of this school, he said, 30 applications have been received from boys and girls from the weaving family or craftsmen of additional textile industries.
He said that he would work with them until November ended after 15 of them would be chosen to join the course.
Shaikh said that this project was initiated in a vanasi based on experiments and if it would produce a positive results of similar schools will begin in all traditional Indian weaving hubs.