Venkatagiri Sari

History

Production and variety

• Raw materials – such as cotton in hank form, silver and gold zaris and Naphthol and Vat dyes
• Cotton purification – This process involves boiling of hank cotton to remove certain impurities, soaked overnight, rinsed and made suitable for dyeing process.
• Dyeing – it involves bleaching technique for white saris and for colored ones, Vat and Naphthol dyes are used.
• Removal of excess dye – dyed or bleached yarn undergoes soaking in boiling water with some techniques to cut out excess dyeing.
• Drying – after the above process, the yarn in hank form is dried on bamboo sticks.
• Winding of hank yarn into warp and weft – charka, shift bamboo and bobbin are used to form warp. While, the weft is made with help of a pirn.
• Street sizing – the warp extension, spraying of rice conjee ensures suitable weaving followed by drying.
• Weaving process – involves Warp and Weft method of weaving and sometimes replaced by Jacquard weaving.
• Conception of Design – involves two kinds of process namely, Human element and Graph Paper Design
• Cutting & folding – woven cloth undergoes cutting per the goods demand
• Inspection of sarees – inspection by the master weaver to rectify flaws
• Marketing – showroom display for selling the sarees

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