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National Handloom Day
India's day for weavers and handloom cloth, 7 August, with exhibitions, awards and a call to wear a handloom saree.
What is worn for National Handloom Day
National Handloom Day is kept on 7 August. It was first observed in 2015, on the anniversary of the Swadeshi Movement, which began on that date in 1905 at the Calcutta Town Hall, with a call to boycott foreign cloth and favour Indian goods. The government of India and the states hold exhibitions, sales and award functions for weavers, and handloom cooperatives and shops run offers. Many people wear a handloom saree or post pictures of one on the day. Handloom is one of the largest sources of rural employment after agriculture, with millions of weavers and allied workers, many of them women, and every region of the country has its own weave.
The sarees
Also part of it, and being written: Handloom (Cloth woven on a loom worked by hand, rather than a powered one.).
Written by the EveryPallu desk with AI assistance. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Khadi: Unknown author, Public domain, source