Sanskriti Studio- Ek Badlav

KHADI-FABRIC THAT BROUGHT REVOLUTION IN INDIA As rightly told by Mahatma Gandhi Ji: “ If we have KHADI spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.” Khadi is not just a fabric or cloth, it is a revolution, a story of India fight against freedom, a symbol of India’s Freedom. The Khadi Movement, was started by Ghandhiji, to promote an idea of freedom among the hearts and minds of Indian People that the Indians can become self-reliant on cotton and be free from foreign cloth and clothing. British used to buy cotton from India at cheap price and export them to Britain where it was woven to make clothes. Those clothes were send imported back to India and used to be sold at a very high price. The Khadi Movement was introduced by Gandhiji to boycott the foreign goods including cotton to promote Indian goods so as to improve the India’s economy. Under this movement he starting promoting spinning of khadi for rural self-reliance and self-emplo...

Cotton – Its origin and Type of Cotton Saarees Cotton  is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus  Gossypium  in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. Under natural conditions, the cotton bolls will increase the dispersal of the seeds. The origin of cotton production and its use comes from ancient times which is about 7000 years old.   Scientists searching caves in Mexico found bits of cotton bolls and pieces of cotton cloth that proved to be at least 7,000 years old. They also found that the cotton itself was much like that grown in America today.   In the Indus River Valley in Pakistan, cotton was being grown, spun and woven into cloth 3,000 years BC. At about the same time, natives of Egypt’s Nile valley were making and wearing cotton clothing. Arab merchants brought cotton cloth to Europe about 800 A.D. When...