Handlooms need to carve a niche – ET Retail
Handloom is a more than 2,000-year-old craft. But today the segment mostly thrives on government support in Tamil Nadu, especially the free sari-dhoti scheme as well as initiatives from state-owned Co-optex. The advent of mechanization and powerlooms had taken the focus away from handlooms towards mass production, which handlooms could not match. Globally too, the…