The story of the Kerala sarees of Balaramapuram

About 20 kms from #Thiruvananthapuram lies the heritage weaving hub of #Balaramapuram. This is the place where the GI-tagged, gossamer-thin handlooms edged with gold, comes from.
In dark, dusty sheds, on the trademark pit looms of Balaramapuram, the weavers, both men and women weave fine unbleached cotton cloth with gold borders, transforming them into beautiful dhothis, traditional Kerala set mundu, and #Keralasarees.
As a result of two lockdowns, the handloom industry here is hanging by a thread.
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[@Floofu33]

These weavers, craftsmen - women and artisans are true asset of our country.

[@likhisuryan7201]

Balaramapuram sarees, the pride of Thiruvananthapuram...

[@gayathrisg6979]

ബാലരാമപുരം..... ♥️

[@shrutinair7823]

Loved the detailed video.. Kudos to the Hindu for highlighting the issues..

[@blahblahblah8914]

The weaving techniques is sooo complex....thousands of threads and complexity...wow

[@sakei1]

Everything made by hand is valuable.

[@never3385]

The workers might not have had a balaramapuram saree for their own...these people work so hard to make this happen

[@mahiunisouex]

our heritage we need protect it

[@Floofu33]

It's very sad scenario for every weaver around the country.

[@phantom9991000]

❤️ from Kerala.

[@sandraasvlogs6217]

From. Balaramapuram ❤❤❤

[@devidevatha]

Love those handlooms & handicrafts

[@ganeshbhai4161]

This reminds me of my childhood days ...when I was In 8th standard ,me with my mom making target to complete one saree in min 8 days 🙃

[@tulikabhakat9628]

This technique used till now in my hometown in murshidabad jiaganj.. 😍

[@sannibabukandala6933]

Handlooms are our inheritance from our ancestors. One has to protect it by wearing handloom products of weavers all over India 🇮🇳

[@LA-hw6yv]

Rightly said ! The handlooms have clothes for every season of an Indian. We need to keep wearing our heritage . Other wise we will lose our heritage 😓.

[@superfluous5162]

@@LA-hw6yv they need innovation and collaboration with fashion brand . Many India brand did that , sabasachi did very often .

[@LA-hw6yv]

@@superfluous5162 Agreed! And I think the best way to inculcate the heritage of India is from basics. Like in fashion institutions, if the professors uses more of our handloom products, this will give the future designers a good idea to use them .

[@srinivastali1996]

Salute to their workship 🙏🙏

[@ushapradeesh2339]

Let us encourage this tradition, I have purchased sarees direct from the loom, it is so satisfying 🙏🏽

[@indram2.0]

Our place ❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏💞💞👁️⚔️

[@Floofu33]

Wonderful 👌

[@sanjanakathu3298]

Balaramapuram❤❤❤❤❤

[@LA-hw6yv]

Every region has its on ecological way of lifestyle. From weaving to wearing. It takes a whole lot of skills, knowledge and hardwork to ultimately create a masterpiece . The handlooms are loosing their glory due to us only. Instead of people choosing or dreaming or saving for clothes from ZARA, GIONNI ARMANI, etc , we need to keep our eyes open for such variety of handloom products that are constantly being sidelined amid the race of time. I'm not criticizing people buying from these stores . We are now inclined towards fashion and quantity rather than comfort and quality. We would wear a synthetic polyester t shirt just for style rather than a handloom pure cotton kurta or shirt in the scorching heat. We can buy 3 viscose fabric skirt instead of 1 pure cotton/silk saree. Our handloom products are made by people of our ethnicity. We are failing our people 😢.

[@_suki_]

👌👌

[@LA-hw6yv]

@@_suki_ glad to find people who agree 😌

[@anandakumariis8851]

Great...Our Balaramapuram

[@_suki_]

💖💖💖 please also give info about how people can buy this. Online & offline.

[@MrChetan750]

Nice 👌

[@binduks5249]

super

[@ratanghosh9545]

Make a video on shantipur's and fulia's handloom saree

[@Mytomandfriends777]

Any good adress for saree

[@anandu9131]

❤ from balaramapuram

[@harishkumararjun9550]

Could have muted the background noise from weaving machine..when the host is speaking....it was very difficult to listen to her voice

[@sannibabukandala6933]

Please make videos on handbooks of Andhra and Telangana

[@bharatagni7778]

👍👍

[@midhinmaddy]

Blpm❤

[@indram2.0]

😇😇😇❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@haripriya4159]

👍👍👍👍

[@superfluous5162]

They need private enterprises for sale and PR and website .

[@bagyalakshmi3531]

Onlinla order ondo mole

[@abhijeetsinghsingh806]

😂 first comment by me

[@muhammedsafuvan6033]

Ayin.?😂

[@geethuravi7842]

Ayinu alla oyinu

[@ranveershersingh]

You deserves reward from the hindu.