Project to Revive Handloom Weavers
By sumeet on Apr 30, 2010 in Landmark Self Expression and Leadership Program
The Landmark education SELP programme project of Pooja Bhanushali was recently written about in the Andhra Mirror. She is creating an India-wide forum to discuss the situation of handloom weavers, whose numbers have declined drastically in recent years due to fewer opportunities and middlemen taking more of the profits.
The forum seeks to put loom weavers and distributors in dialogue to create more profitable alliances, putting them in communication via a website, handloomexchange.com.
She added that various forms of weaving were on the decline in India and that she was committed to reviving sales and interest in this work of great cultural and artistic worth.