Paradise India: Village Visit

Last week I had an opportunity to visit a village near Thanjavur (Tanjore). The name of the village is Variyankaval. This is my wife’s grand pa's place. We went from Bangalore to Tanjore by train. From Tanjore we have hired a taxi to reach that place. There is no wonder that Tanjore is rice bowl or rice granary of Tamil Nadu. Everywhere I see the green paddy fields and it has created a pleasant mood in my mind. The roads are not too good as expected since there is no much development in those places. Ah! We have reached the house after a short travel of 2hrs. In that place I had seen very little amount of Houses which are constructed with full covering ceiling. Most of the houses are covered on the top by potsherd tiles, few houses are very old than I expected. We had a plan to stay that night in the House. I never thought before that people can live in these kinds of titled houses.

Later the next day I wanted to start little early, but when I came out in the morning I saw cotton and silk weaving are done in hand. Surprised to see this after a long time, but still people in India prepares handloom saree and cloths. The initial process is to make the design, color and the border of the saree. Next, to move ahead with the process of separating the thread which are entangled each other. Next decision is to make how many saree in one go, in that way it is been stretched for a long distance and they use different technology to separate the cotton thread which is entangled each other. This process will create parallel threads in a long run and they will fold. Once the fold is done they use a handmade machine with lot of connections to it. This is used to intersect the parallel thread with the other thread to make the complete over view of the cloth. Please see the below images which will help you to understand better.