Visiting the home of a Sari Weaver
February 24, 2012 • Spiritual Adventures
After our ceremony at the Airateswar Temple in the village of Darasuram we visited one of the local sari weavers. The town is famous for sari weaving and most of these weavers supply the larger stores in the big cities with their stock of saris. We entered a small home to find a loom taking up most of the living room and a old man expertly weaving a beautiful blue sari.
The loom is an amazing machine with over 1600 lines of thread and what apperas to be a complex system. Basic saris take about 5 days or so to weave. More complex ones even up to 18 days or more.
It's fascinating to see the various saris. What a beautiful display of designs and talent.
The weaver also showed us some beautiful two tone silk scarves as well
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