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National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi [4] was set up at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi under the administrative control of the Ministry of Textiles. [5] The Museum is a structured village complex consisting of 15 structures representing village dwellings, courtyards and shrines from different states spread over an area of 5 hectares.
Indian Institutes of Handloom Technology (IIHTs) are government run public institutes of higher education in the handloom sector. There are six institutes in the central sector and four in the State sector.
Habaspuri handloom is named after the village of Habaspur in Kalahandi district where it was originally woven by the Kandha Tribe during 19th CE.When dynastic rule ends,tribal people stopped making sarees but the saree was revived by a weaver named Ugrasen Meher in Chicheguda.
The state has the third highest number of handlooms and the highest number of handloom weavers in co-operative units. The department of handlooms is responsible for ensuring the sustainability of the weavers by facilitating raw materials for production, infrastructure support, marketing and sales of finished goods through Co-optex. [13] Powerloom
Terracotta shrine figure of Aiyanar, who is a male village guardian deity. The Crafts Museum was established in 1956 by the now defunct All India Handicrafts Board. [4] It was set up over a period of 30 years starting in the 1950s and 60s by the efforts of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, when the area was envisaged as an ethnographic space where craftsmen from various parts of India would come in to ...
Sant Kabir Award is an Indian Government award conferred to outstanding weavers who have made valuable contribution in keeping alive the handloom heritage. It was established for dedication in building up linkages between the past, present and future through dissemination of knowledge on traditional skills and designs by Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. [1]
In 1950 Pupul Jayakar was invited by Jawaharlal Nehru to study the handloom sector of the economy. [1] The AIHB was established in 1952. [2] [3] [4] Its first chair was Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay. [5] Other early key figures included Lakshmi Chand Jain, Kitty Shiva Rao and Fori Nehru. [2] [6]
Handicrafts and Handlooms Export Corporation of India was an agency of Ministry of Textiles, Government of India [1] established in 1958 with main objectives to undertake exports of handicrafts, handlooms products, khadi and products of village industries from India and to undertake special promotional measures.