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Silk Fabric on Weaving Loom
November 2017
Avani Society
Berinag, India
Life in the Bora community has changed significantly since its hemp cultivation days. With increased exposure to the outside world, more and more youth are finishing school, and girls are getting married later.
In its simplest form, using a handloom involves interlacing two sets of thread: the warp, or the length, and the weft, or the width, using a small wooden device (called a shuttle) to carry the weft from one end of the fabric to the other.
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- Title: Silk Fabric on Weaving Loom
- Date Created: November 2017
- Location: Uttarakhand, India
- Type: Photograph
- Photography: Camille Parker
- Community: One of the primary communities Avani works with are the Bora Kuthaliya, a small caste based in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, India. The Bora have a rich heritage and tradition of cultivating and weaving hemp to create bags, rugs, and mats. However, with the government's ban on hemp cultivation in the 1980s, this practice has all but disappeared. Today, with the help of Avani, Bora communities are reviving these traditional weaving skills through new art forms, enabling them to continue making a living in their Himalayan home.
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