Silk Weaving

Pam/ September 24, 2017/ India

Literally next door to the hotel was a silk weaving business. Most of the weaving is done as a cottage industry with looms in weavers’ homes. There were four of five looms and two weavers doing their work while the owner gave a talk of how the looms worked. The pattern is both known in the head of the weaver and in the “software” of the loom, which is an old punch card system.

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