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Cotton garments are widely sought after for its unsurpassable qualities. It is
comparatively cheap, easily available durable and best for skin as per the
recommendation of medical science. The origin of cotton is supposed to be in
India during the existent of ancient 'Sindhu' civilization which had set
place 3000 BC. The recent evidences available with the archaeologists
form the relic of the ruined places suggests that hand spun and manually woven
cotton clothes were used by the historical citizens of the civilization who
were living and there. In due course of time the evolution and technical
revolution has brought a sea change in the spinning weaving and demand of
cotton garment. At this present moment most of the textile industry are using
cotton fabric as their raw material. Cotton are grown in plant and now-a-days
it is cultivated in many big and small countries across the continents, but
India and china are the bulk producers of cotton who are placed in the first
and second largest cotton producing country. The grown up cotton went through
cleaning before the yarn is spun. After this fabric treatment it is spun into
yarn for use. The yarns are used for weaving clothes which is followed by
dying. The woven clothes are colored by natural dyes and pigments which are in
traditional use since early day. Fackly, there are 23 (twenty three) types of
cotton available in the planet earth where's the quality of cotton widely
varies from kind to kind and place to place. The high quality cotton products
are very expensive in comparison to other fabrics like polyester and other
artificial products in vogue. The world statistics states that there are more
than four millions of handlooms employed in weaving cotton fabrics but instead
of this hand woven cotton products and handicrafts are still an integral part
of the market unanimously. Although the mechanized spinning machines and new
textile technologies has taken over the traditional method of processing of
cotton fabric or clothes yet the presence of hand spinner and weavers manifests
that still their work are liked and there is a place for their products in the
market owing to which the art has been surviving up to this day and age.
CHINTZ:
This is a multicolored texture printed especially on the glazed cotton fabrics.
This pattern was widely practiced in India, China, Japan, Philippines and also
in other parts of the world. The variegated clothes looks attractive and other
advantage for the buyer is it's costs very low. This type of clothes are not
only worn by the regional people of the place where it is manufactured
but it is exported to other countries too. The cotton clothes are colored and
printed by many natural dyes and pigments.
SATRANJI:
It is one kind of cotton carpets which are made in Indian since the medieval
age. Archaeologists says this was used as for playing chess as the chess board.
The carpet is strong, soft and durable. People prefer this product because it
is washable and relatively light weighted from the jute and coir product. The
weavers of satranji works very laboriously to design new pattern and eye catchy
color combination to full fill the demand of the customers. This products are
available in all cotton producing countries.
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