Workshop on Handloom and Textile products at Bomdila

Our Correspondent

Itanagar: A day-long workshop was organized by the department of Handloom and Textile on “Design Intervention on handloom products and their market scope” at Bomdila on Friday which was attended by West Kameng DC Dr Sonal Swaroop, district planning officer, deputy director of textile and handicraft and the district information and public relation officers among others.

The resource person for the workshop was Kitu Gupta, a fashion designer and a professor at the Pearl Academy, Mumbai, an official release informed.

The purpose of the workshop was to create design interventions in the Bomdila Emporium. These design interventions aimed at making new products which caters to the tourist population as West Kameng is one of the districts with the highest tourist footfall.

The outcome of the workshop is ten new products which are light to carry for the tourist and affordable too. All of these products use local fabric and traditional motifs and design readily available in the Bomdila Craft Centre thus making the production process cost effective.

A hands-on training was provided to the master trainers and all the passed-out trainees of the past three years, of the Bomdila Craft Centre.

Throwing light on the booming tourism growth in the district, the DC urged the trainees to take up the venture whole-heartedly to strengthen the socio-economic condition of every household.

The workshop was facilitated by the Chief Ministers Fellow Kime Bune and Ronnie Nido under their project titled “Threads and Looms”.

The project aims to increase the livelihood of handloom dependent households by linking handloom and the tourism sector. Under the project, the next step is to expedite the production process and link it with the booming home stay culture in the district before the next peak tourist season. The workshop was funded under the BADP, the release added.

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