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Banarasi Saree

Wedding Attire

by

Prof. Bibhudutta Baral and Sandhya B.

Tools and Raw Materials

Jacquard (saree design) tools:

• Manual Paper Cutter Machine	- It helps to cut the sheets to required lengths.
• Brown Rectangle Sheet	- Thick brown sheets are used to punch and fix to the jacquard machine.
• Measuring Scale	- It is used to mark the inches on the brown sheet before starting to punch.
• Small Punch Tools with Rubber Washers	- It helps to punch the brown card and make holes.
• Hammer	- Helps to punch the cards by striking on the punch tool.
• Graph Paper	- These are used to draw designs and becomes reference to punch the cards.
• Nail Paint	- Helps to mark on the jacquard punch plate

Weaving (handloom) tools:

• Yarn	- The basic raw material that is needed to weave
• Containers	- To boil the yarns.
• Metal Rods	- Metal rods help to lift yarns from containers.
• Dye Colors	- Colors which are used to dye the yarns.
• Spinning Wheel	- Helps in turning fiber into thread.
• Spindle	- Threads are rolled to spindle to load in the fly shuttle.
• Fly Shuttle	- Holds the spindle with plain and zari threads (gold or silver).
• Jacquard Machine	- Holds the punch cards.
• Punch Cards	- The cards are perforated to create the designs.
• Rubber Bands	- Thick rubber bands are used to tie to carry out the tie and die process.
• Handloom	- The loom helps to weave the saree.
• Spools	- Holds the threads that are taken to roll warp threads.
• Warping Machine	- Helps to roll the yarn of required length to a warp beam.
• Warp Beam	- Holds the base threads that helps to begin with weaving.
• Heddles and Reed	- The yarn passes through heddles and reed.

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