National Handloom Day is celebrated on the 7th of August every year to commemorate the launch of the Swadeshi Movement on August 7th, 1905 during India’s struggle for independence.
India’s handloom tradition is over 5,000 years. The imagery of the loom is woven into our poetry – from the Vedas to our folk ballads. So powerful is the spinning wheel, that the charkha became one of the symbols of the struggle for India’s independence. The forms of the loom kept changing but handwoven cloth was and is an intrinsic part of the warp and weft of India’s intangible cultural heritage.
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