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Vishwakarma Puja
The day artisans and workers honour their tools and looms, kept in mid September.
What is worn for Vishwakarma Puja
Vishwakarma Puja honours Vishwakarma, the divine architect and craftsman of the gods. It falls in mid September, when the sun enters Virgo, and is kept in workshops, factories and craft clusters across India, and especially in the east. Artisans, mechanics, weavers and factory workers clean their tools and machines, set them before an image of Vishwakarma and do not use them for the day. In weaving towns, looms are cleaned and garlanded and the day ends with food shared among workers. It is a working people's festival with no fixed dress, but it is a reminder of the hands behind the cloth, from handloom weavers to powerloom workers.
Also part of it, and being written: Handloom (The looms themselves are honoured on the day.).
Written by the EveryPallu desk with AI assistance. Background: "Vishvakarma Puja" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.