AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON PROFILE OF HANDLOOMS OF JORHAT DISTRICT OF ASSAM
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2021
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AAU, Jorhat
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The present investigation entitled “An empirical study on profile of Handlooms of Jorhat district of Assam” was conducted during the year 2019-2021 to study about Handlooms types, parts, accessories and their functions, technological changes in the Handlooms with following objectives: 1. To study the different types of Handlooms available in Jorhat District of Assam. 2. To explore the parts, accessories of handlooms and their functions. 3. To examine the recent technological changes occurred in the loom. Handloom weaving of Assam had a long tradition in the socio-economic life of the people in supplementing the family income to a great extent. It also gave self-employment opportunity to the rural people. It had significant role in the state economy next to the agriculture. The current research took place in Jorhat district of Assam. Jorhat has two sub-divisions i.e., Jorhat and Titabor, and both were selected for the study. Six development blocks from the two sub-divisions were selected for the present study. Two villages from each block and ten weavers from each of village were selected in order to collect primary information for the purpose of the study. An interview schedule was prepared consisting of five distinct parts i.e., the personal information of the respondent, the information of handlooms, parts and their function, accessories and their function of handloom and technological changes in handloom. Data was collected from the respondents with the help of this interview schedule through personal interview. Result showed that, highest percentage of the weavers were in the age group 35-44 years and no male member from all the twelve villages was found to be engaged in weaving activities. Majority of the respondents used throw shuttle pit loom followed by fly shuttle frame loom and 66.66% of the respondents used drawboy attachment and 5.00% of respondent used Jacquard attachment, but 28.33% respondents did not use any attachments. Frame material of loom for most of the respondent’s was bamboo. Hundred per cent of the respondents had the experience of working on the handloom and most of them had experienced from their teenage age. Most of the respondents did not improve their handloom but only a few improved their handloom. They, however, alter attachments, parts and accessories of Handloom when necessary.