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There was jubilation among weavers successful Tiruchi arsenic the famed Woraiyur fabric sari was granted a geographical denotation (GI) tag by the Geographical Indications Registry successful Chennai connected Tuesday, 3 years aft the Woraiyur Devanga Handloom Weavers’ Co-operative Society applied for the recognition.
The sari was 1 of 5 products from Tamil Nadu granted the GI tag connected Tuesday, the others being Kavindapadi nattu sakkarai (jaggery powder), Namakkal makkal pathirangal (soapstone cookware), the accepted Thooyamalli atom assortment and Ambasamudram choppu saman (wooden toys).
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) lawyer P. Sanjai Gandhi who filed the applications connected behalf of the respective associations, said that Tamil Nadu present had 74 products with GI tags.
As per documents connected the authoritative Intellectual Property India website, the Woraiyur cooperative applied for the GI tag connected March 25, 2022.
According to an authoritative property merchandise connected Tuesday from the Assistant Director of the Department of Handlooms and Textiles, Tiruchi, astatine present, the Woraiyur sari is produced successful Woraiyur, Kottathur, Paithamparai, and different clusters successful the vicinity.
Of 100 looms, 86 are actively working, producing saris of 5.5 m successful length. In its modern avatar, the Woraiyur fabric sari is really a composite product, with the yarn sourced done National Handloom Development Corporation successful Coimbatore, dyed successful Jaymkondan, and woven successful Manamedu.
The fabric sari is known for its precocious thread number (80 azygous warp yarns X 80 azygous weft yarns), with a prime number of 68 per inch. Woraiyur fabric saris usually transportation motifs of mango, bangle, geometric shapes, and pearl designs successful the assemblage and border.
Weavers, operating singly oregon successful teams, nutrient saris that priced upwards of ₹1,000 apiece. “Getting a GI tag volition amended the representation of these saris successful the marketplace and could rise the wages of the weavers who presently gain ₹890-₹1,200 per sari,” a elder section authoritative told The Hindu connected Tuesday.
The manufacture body, which groups members of the Devanga Chettiar community, began operations successful 1936, and had implicit 600 weavers successful its fold up to the 1990s, until the advent of powerfulness looms and synthetic fibre successful the Indian textile manufacture dilatory edged retired handloom weaving.
The fineness and simplicity of the sari plan is thought to beryllium related to the British Raj’s usage of Woraiyur’s looms to nutrient airy fabric aesculapian dressing cloth during the World War.
References to the historicity of the weave tin besides beryllium seen successful Song 66 (Pukar Kaandam) of the Tamil epic Silapathikaram by Ilango Adigal, that talks of the fineness of Woraiyur’s fabric garments, said the section release.
