Handloom weaving - aiaca

and while the weaver does the right side, his aid manages the left with separate
shuttles. Here the border designs and colors are quite different from that of the body.
Ganeshpur in Bhandara district of Maharashtra has almost half the working population
engaged in tussar silk weaving. It is almost a monopoly of the Koshti community.
Tussar silk produced here is known by its ancient Sanskrit name of Kosa. The entire
process from the emergence of the moth, to the weaving, is all done in the area.
3. Raw materials
3.1 Cotton; silk; natural fibers like wool, jute etc.; zari
[Photograph 1: Raw materials]
3.2 Various types of dyes are used as per the requirement. The different dyes used are;
• Natural Dyes
• Chemical dyes
• Direct dyes
• Napthol dyes
• Vat dyes