Design Resource
Banarasi Saree
Wedding Attire
by
Prof. Bibhudutta Baral and Sandhya B.
Tools and Raw Materials
Jacquard (saree design) tools:
| • Manual Paper Cutter Machine | - It helps to cut the sheets to required lengths. |
| • Brown Rectangle Sheet | - Thick brown sheets are used to punch and fix to the jacquard machine. |
| • Measuring Scale | - It is used to mark the inches on the brown sheet before starting to punch. |
| • Small Punch Tools with Rubber Washers | - It helps to punch the brown card and make holes. |
| • Hammer | - Helps to punch the cards by striking on the punch tool. |
| • Graph Paper | - These are used to draw designs and becomes reference to punch the cards. |
| • Nail Paint | - Helps to mark on the jacquard punch plate |
Weaving (handloom) tools:
| • Yarn | - The basic raw material that is needed to weave |
| • Containers | - To boil the yarns. |
| • Metal Rods | - Metal rods help to lift yarns from containers. |
| • Dye Colors | - Colors which are used to dye the yarns. |
| • Spinning Wheel | - Helps in turning fiber into thread. |
| • Spindle | - Threads are rolled to spindle to load in the fly shuttle. |
| • Fly Shuttle | - Holds the spindle with plain and zari threads (gold or silver). |
| • Jacquard Machine | - Holds the punch cards. |
| • Punch Cards | - The cards are perforated to create the designs. |
| • Rubber Bands | - Thick rubber bands are used to tie to carry out the tie and die process. |
| • Handloom | - The loom helps to weave the saree. |
| • Spools | - Holds the threads that are taken to roll warp threads. |
| • Warping Machine | - Helps to roll the yarn of required length to a warp beam. |
| • Warp Beam | - Holds the base threads that helps to begin with weaving. |
| • Heddles and Reed | - The yarn passes through heddles and reed. |
