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History of Indian Garments

History of Garments
"There grew there [India] a wonderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the endes of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to feed when they are hungry." -John Mandeville on a strange plant called cotton ( 1350 ) In todays scientific age as jet aeroplanes are much different from aeroplanes of the olden times is the case of clothes.Our earth was a burning rock but as it grew colder the life started on it.Much latter ,the human life came into existance.Gradually man learnt to cover himself with skin and leaves. Likewise , Handloom is an art.t depends on the person how beautiful and neat he makes it with development of ther arts like drawing . Though the Gupta period initiated stitching , the art of cutting and stitching is not so developed as loose fitted clothes were worn during the Mughal period.Usha Sewing Machine was invented in 1935 , to serve the British art of tailoring. The Khadi Movement Evidence of woven fabric and natural dyes was revealed as a result of Harappa and Mohenjodaro excavation.In 1750 , the British forced the Indians to cultivate raw cotton ,whch resulted in the decline in availability of food grains .They would export the raw material to their homeland for free and sell the same in India at a high price.

RK.Narayans Comman Man : Influence of refined english garments on comman folks of India.

The Khadi movement aimed at boycotting foreign goods and promoting Indian goods, Thereby improving India's economy. Mahatma Gandhi began promoting the spinning of khd for rural self-employment and selfreliance (instead of using cloth manufactured industrially in Britain) in 1920s India thus making khadi an integral part and icon of the Swadeshi movement. The freedom struggle revolved around the use of khd fabrics and the dumping of foreign-made clothes. When some people complained about the costliness of khadi to Mahatma Gandhi, he started wearing only loincloth. Thus it symbolized the political ideas and independence itself, and to this day most politicians in India are seen only in khd clothing. The flag of India is only allowed to be made from this material. At the dawn of independence , Indian handloom industry became the largest cottage industry of the country.

POWER LOOMS AND SHUTTLE-LESS LOOMS The first power loom was invented by Edmund Cartwright in 1785. Originally Power looms were with shuttle, and they were very slow. India has worlds largest installed base for looms. There are approximately 5mn looms in the country. India has 1.8mn Shuttle looms which is 45% of world capacity, and 3.90mn handlooms which is 85% of world capacity. But modernization in looms is less and Indian industry still lags significantly behind US, China, Europe, Taiwan etc. (Texmin, 2005). Most of the looms we have currently in country are shuttle-less. There are less than 15,000 modern looms, whereas traditional looms are in large numbers. Value addition and the manufacturing of fabrics according to customers compliances, is not possible due to obsolete technology of looms.

INDIAN MILLS Cotton mills come up The first cotton mill in India was set up as a spinning mill in Bombay in 1854. From the early nineteenth century, Bombay had grown as an important port for the export of raw cotton

from India to England and China. It was close to the vast black soil tract of western India where cotton was grown. When the cotton textile mills came up they could get supplies of raw material with ease. MILLSIndia in 1858, by Arthur Mills, MP. MULLENSResults of Missionary Labor, by the Eev. Joseph Mullens. Arvind Mills was started in 1931 , introducing denmn the Indian market.The total export is expected to register 10% growth in India.

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