There is no organised knowledge source to understand Indian Handloom when it comes to the technical understanding of handloom textile. Books and blogs are there who are hardly touching the Designing, Production, Costing and any other detail what a designer or an entrepreneur needs to understand.
This course is offering comprehensive learning of Indian Handloom where a beginner will get a deeper understanding. An intermediate learner will get more clarity and new knowledge on Indian Handloom. An advanced learner will get something which is purely derived from extensive working experience and field studies.
Debal Banerjee designs this course which is a handloom practitioner and textile designer having 13 years of experience. In this course, one can get a comprehensive insight on following topic.
Raw Material (natural and synthetic fibres used in textile)
Yarn (structural detail and relative density calculations of yarns popularly used in Indian Handloom)
Textile Dyes (Details of synthetic and natural dyes used in present-day Indian Handloom)
Handloom Technology
Introduction to textile design: Decorative Handloom Weaving.
Introduction to Indian Handloom Techniques (Harness Lifting, Jamdani, Ikkat, Cut shuttle)
Authenticity Identification methods (Ikkat, Jamdani, Banarasi etc.)
Handloom Workflow: Explanation of every step of the production process.
Cost Calculation Methods.
Glossary of Indian Decorative Weaving.