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awaja urrie
Rajasthan
India
Ajmer
Rajasthan
The journey begins...
F
amous places of ajmer
View of mountains with ana sagar
Ana sagar
Ajmer Sharif Dargah Dargah Sharif, the tomb of Moinuddin Chishti is one of the holiest places of worship in India not only for the Muslims but for followers of every faith...
Market of Ajmer Sharif Dargah
Brahma Temple - Only one temple of Bramha ji in the world...
Adhai din ka jhonpra
Market of Ajmer Sharif Dargah
where we traced artisans of jawaja durrie...
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place which gave birth to jawaja durrie
wild and free birds of Jawaja...
artisans
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nkarlal ji
President of Jawaja Association
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usaram ji and family...
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opiram ji eldest craftmen
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shok ji
youngest craftmen
Gopiram ji with his family
house of Gopiram ji in which he lives with his wife, two sons and one granddaughter...
food is made in hearth in varanda of the house in a big utensil...
Wooden logs are used as fuel for making food and also for dyeing...
Kilm - used for dyeing
P
rocess Dyeing of unbleached yarns...
Drying of dyed yarns...
The dyed yarn or white yarn is stretched around the creel...
The winders draw a thread from the stretched hank attached to the bobbin...
The bobbin is then placed on the spindle, which gives revolving motion by a rotation of the wheel. Thus, the yarn is passed from the hanks to the bobbins...
Then a smaller bobbin is filled by three big bobbins, one thread from each bobbin is taken to form three ply yarn, then these small bobbins are inserted into the shuttle for weaving...
Bobbin stand Bobbin
Warp log
warp threads are drawn through the eyes of the heald, with the help of a hook...
warp threads on handloom
front view of handloom
small bobbins...
small bobbins are inserted into the shuttle for weaving...
a weaver is working on handloom...
Durrie in the process of weaving...
The weaving is only done by the male member of the family, womens are only involved in the process of raw material preparation from yarn to loom. They are not active participants in weaving...
But the president of Jawaja weavers association, Omkarlal is setting precedents by training his daughter and granddaughter in the craft of weaving with the intention that they can be self reliant weavers in future...
Wife of Pusaram ji, Yashi Devi is the only women in the village who takes part in the weaving...
In 1992, Weavers of Jawaja used to weave thick fabric for muffle during sleeping..
In 2017, Weavers weave the world famous durrie “Jawaja Durrie”
In weaving, during beating motion, wool warp yarns are rubbed through reed all the time due to this phenomenon lots of wool fiber gets wasted... weavers can use these fibers for the filling of soft toys or pillows...
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Abhilasha Kumari | Divyansh Nigam | Minakshi Sharma | Pooja Kushwaha | Priyanka Gahlot | Shailija Khati | Sheeba Khan Master of Design 2016 - 2018