Chickpet’s history along with the weaving past and present of Cottonpet, Nagarathpet and Cubbonpet, outlines a rather interwoven amalgamation of a blurred-past of guilds and artisans coming together and slowly vanquishing from the picture; as the interdependence of communities, as that of Devangas; (from genealogy of yarn into fabric) has been unbridled from the fabric of one huge umbrella of textile production, in some ways.
With the coming of the newly mechanized Powerloom clusters, the producer-customer relationship has taken center stage while the handloom craft as an occupation, is becoming austere.
The majority of the weavers start their business with the self-finance. They don’t have adequate supply of finance to modernize their power looms which is necessary for greater productivity and better quality of fabric.
The abandoned templates near Chickpete, became the primary area of my muse, which led to the building up of the narrative for my piece.
