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Craft Documentation: Warngal Durries

The document discusses craft documentation for Warangal dhurries from Telangana, India. It provides details on the history, materials, manufacturing, and weaving of Warangal dhurries, including how they are made using looms and have been granted a GI tag. Pitta Ramulu is highlighted as the first weaver from Warangal to receive a national award for his dhurries.

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Craft Documentation: Warngal Durries

The document discusses craft documentation for Warangal dhurries from Telangana, India. It provides details on the history, materials, manufacturing, and weaving of Warangal dhurries, including how they are made using looms and have been granted a GI tag. Pitta Ramulu is highlighted as the first weaver from Warangal to receive a national award for his dhurries.

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CRAFT DOCUMENTATION

WARNGAL DURRIES

Name : s. Gayathri
Subject : craft documentation
Dept : fashion design
Faculty : T . Bhavani
Handicraft
Handicraft is about processing materials by
hand with hand tools. The results can be
helpful things or decorative things. The
materials utilized in the product are natural,
industrially processed or maybe recycled.
The models of the product are ancient,
revised traditional or fashionable.
Handicraft is deeply frozen in society and
contributes to preserving and sending
traditions. In their product, crafters transfer
an area of their cultural heritage in ideas,
forms, materials and work ways, similarly
as their own values, philosophy of life,
fashion and self-image. 
Types of handcrafts
 clay, lacquer and glass
 stone and wood
 bronze, brass and iron
 jewellery, gold and silver
 silk, satin and cotton
 miniatures to papier-Mache
 miscellany
Dhurries
A dhurrie also dhurri, durrie, durry or dari is an
Indian and Pakistani term for a handwoven rug or a
thin flat carpet, an item of home furnishing the
dhurries have unique Designs inspired by state
origin such as multicolor stripes ,one of the most
popular pattern. Dhurrie weaving was a big industry
in rural India.
Materials of dhurries
Dhurries are made from four types of materials:
cotton, wool, jute , and silk, as well as in
variety of combination of all these materials.
This material is first converted into thread and
then woven into dhurries.
Use of dhurries
They have a variety of use depending on size, pattern and material. The smallest one is 12" by 12"
and is used as a table cover for telephone stands and flower vases. They are also made in sizes that
are ideal for doing meditation 24" by 24", known as an aasan.
Dhurries used in large political or social gatherings may be as large as 20 feet by 20 feet. Dhurries
are easily portable being light weight and foldable. They come in variety of color combinations
and patterns catering to the needs of any taste or occasion.
Dhurries have a low maintenance cost as they do not get infected by silverfish or other
insects responsible for destroying carpets.
Dhurries can be used year round. The cotton dhurrie is warm in winters and cool in summers.
Warangal dhurries
Handloom to date remains one of the most rich
traditional practice of the country. Geometric
patterned durries remain the most famous durries
from Warangal and are in demand both in national
and international markets. Lack of self-branding and
promotions are the reasons that Durries made in
Warangal are unable to market their uniqueness
Warangal's famous durries are now available to the
world: Weavers sell their products on amazon
Gi tag for Telangana product
Granted the Geographical Indication (GI) tag
in March 2018. Once a GI tag is allotted to a
product, the name becomes unique to that
geographical area and cannot be used for
products that are manufactured outside of it.
Violation of GI tags is a punishable offence
under the law.
History of Warangal dhurries
Warangal Dhurries is being produced for the past several decades in the
state of Telangana with the geographical advantage of finding cotton in
abundance.
Warangal has long been an important durry-weaving center with a strong
local flavour. The tradition of making Durries in Warangal dates back to
the Mughal era, when the Mughal army came down to south in Deccan
region of India, an army comprising of artists and craftsmen started
making carpets and sooner the local people had accepted it as their part
of regular income, passed down from one generation to the next for more
than hundred years. It is highly labor intensive rural based cottage
industry.
Pitta Ramulu
Pitta Ramulu is the first weaver to get recognized with a national
award, according to The Hans India. He had won the ‘‘National
Handloom Award’ for 2015. Ramulu’s durries can be found on
Amazon.
It is the first time that a weaver from 100-year-old handloom
industry of Warangal district got recognized with a national
award. “After a long wait the skills of Warangal weavers are
recognized at national level. This would help local handloom
industry to flourish now,” he shared with The Hans India.
Types of looms used to make dhurries
1. Pit loom : A pit loom is used for weaving the
carpet, which will be at ground level and is
basically pedal and hand operated. The
Shuttle is manually moved by hand. It is
called Pit Loom because a pit needs to be dug
in the ground for inserting pedals.
2. Frame loom : Similar to pit loom, it has a
pedal but does not need a pit to be dug. The
only major difference is that in a frame loom
the shuttle is not operated by the weaver but
moves through a mechanism of pulling.
3. Power loom : All operations on a power loom
are automatic and only require manual
insertion of the yarn.
Manufacturing in India
1. Rajasthan :
2. Punjab
3. Haryana
4. Himachal Pradesh
5. Uttar Pradesh
6. Pakistan
7. Navalgund in Karnataka
8. Sitapur

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