Handloom example sentences

The yarn produced in Indian spinning mills was used by handloom weavers in India or exported to China.Similarly, the government buys cloth from the handloom weaver's cooperatives and sells it through stores known as Co-optex.Some of these handloom weavers also found work in the new cotton mills that were established in Bombay (now Mumbai), Ahmedabad, Sholapur, Nagpur and Kanpur.By 1941, over 35 per cent of handlooms in India were fitted with fly shuttles: in regions like Travancore, Madras, Mysore, Cochin, Bengal the proportion was 70 to 80 per cent.In the twentieth century, handloom cloth production expanded steadily: almost trebling between 1900 and 1940.Karur is famous for its handloom and powerloom fabrics.In Suhasini s organisation the objective is procurement and sale of traditional Indian handloom and handicraft items.They are unable to compete with the showy goods which Manchester sends in such profusion, and they have of late years emigrated in great numbers, chiefly to Berar, where as day labourers they are able to obtain wages …' Census Report of Central Provinces, 1872, quoted in Sumit Guha, 'The handloom industry in Central India, 1825-1950', The Indian Economic and Social History Review.For instance, small loans are provided to the members for releasing mortgaged land, for meeting working capital needs (e.g. buying seeds, fertilisers, raw materials like bamboo and cloth), for housing materials, for acquiring assets like sewing machine, handlooms, cattle, etc.Later the government set up many more organisations such as Metals and Minerals Trading Corporation (MMTC), Handloom and Handicrafts Export Corporation (HHEC).The new stock may also be qualitatively superior to the existing stock (just as a modern textile mill is more productive than the old handlooms).Suhasini is the branch manager of Fabmart, an organisation that promotes the sales of Indian handloom and handicraft products while providing equitable employment to traditional artisans.This is true even in the case of the handloom sector that we have discussed.Handloom weaving and the occupations associated with it provided livelihood for millions of Indians.