Weaving is the art of making cloth and a textile is a woven fabric. Every day of human lives, people are surrounded by textiles and textiles are so much a part of our daily world that it is hard to imagine life without them. The textiles represent the progress or development which people have achieved in their walk of life towards a civilised and cultured society. The textile industry in India comprises of two sectors - organised sector (mills) and unorganised sector (handlooms and powerlooms). The inner weaknesses of these two sectors, led to the proliferation of powerlooms in the Indian...