Charkha got an important place in folklore and Sufi poetry.
From Shah Hussain’s ‘Ghoom CharakhRa CharakhRa, teri kattan wali jeewe’ to ‘Sun charkhe di mithi mithi cook, mahiya menu yaad aawnda’ it formed part of many folk songs.
Charkha used to produce Khais and weaving khais was sometimes compared as weaving beautiful dreams in poetry.
With the advent of textile industry and branded clothes like Sapna Sitara Lawn, the process is some what became materialist. New brands are promoted and launched in a way that purchasers buy these brands for showing status symbol.
How do you see this transformation of a simple and poetic process fulfilling human’s basic need into totally commercial and materialistic form?
Charkha got an important place in folklore and Sufi poetry.
From Shah Hussain's 'Ghoom CharakhRa CharakhRa, teri kattan wali jeewe' to 'Sun charkhe di mithi mithi cook, mahiya menu yaad aawnda' it formed part of many folk songs.
Charkha used to produce Khais and weaving khais was sometimes compared as weaving beautiful dreams in poetry.
**With the advent of textile industry and branded clothes like Sapna Sitara Lawn, the process is some what became materialist. New brands are promoted and launched in a way that purchasers buy these brands for showing status symbol.
How do you see this transformation of a simple and poetic process fulfilling human's basic need into totally commercial and materialistic form?**
Not only fabric or textile industry but with the time and age everything has changed,
My nani said in old times they used to grind wheat at home with chakkii, but now a days people don't even know about chakki,
Not only fabric or textile industry but with the time and age everything has changed,
My nani said in old times they used to grind wheat at home with chakkii, but now a days people don't even know about chakki,
Yes but grinding wheat has not become as commercial and glamorised as textile industry
The reason why the textile industry has excelled is because theres a lot of demand for the fabric on daily basis not just for apparel but also for furnishing etc.
In the olden days there wasn't that much of an awareness because there wasn't any medium or any kind of television/media for the people to get to know their thing thus the value of these things wasn't that much either.
The reason why the textile industry has excelled is because theres a lot of demand for the fabric on daily basis not just for apparel but also for furnishing etc.
In the olden days there wasn't that much of an awareness because there wasn't any medium or any kind of television/media for the people to get to know their thing thus the value of these things wasn't that much either.
But people were living without these things. no? It seems that consumerism hit this particular area with more intensity
Not only fabric or textile industry but with the time and age everything has changed,
My nani said in old times they used to grind wheat at home with chakkii, but now a days people don't even know about chakki,
Aapne wo chakki dekhi hai...?
maine dekhi hai mere paRos me ek family rehti thi unke haan ye chakki thi....
uss ghar ki buzurg khatoon uss per jwari wagera uss pisa karti thi....aur hamare region me chakki ke chalane ke saath auratein khas gane bhi gati jinhe marathi me ovi kehte hain....
maine dekhi hai mere paRos me ek family rehti thi unke haan ye chakki thi....
uss ghar ki buzurg khatoon uss per jwari wagera uss pisa karti thi....aur hamare region me chakki ke chalane ke saath auratein khas gane bhi gati jinhe marathi me ovi kehte hain....
Duniya baRi banwri pathar poojan jae
ghar ki chakki koi na pooje jiska peesa khahe
Our dadi had aata peesne wali chakki and it might be preserved today.
maine dekhi hai mere paRos me ek family rehti thi unke haan ye chakki thi....
uss ghar ki buzurg khatoon uss per jwari wagera uss pisa karti thi....aur hamare region me chakki ke chalane ke saath auratein khas gane bhi gati jinhe marathi me ovi kehte hain....
Charkha is used for making thread and that thread is used to knit CharPai. As for as khais waving concerned i didnt see that, but may in some part of sub-continent people wave khais from thread made with Charkha.
"Kattan pooniya te hanju mere wagde" pooni is folded thread.
Charkha is used for making thread and that thread is used to knit CharPai. As for as khais waving concerned i didnt see that, but may in some part of sub-continent people wave khais from thread made with Charkha.
"Kattan pooniya te hanju mere wagde" pooni is folded thread.
Interesting. I didn't know that manji's baan is made using Charkha. I thought it might be made from jute (Pat-sin which is found in Bengla Desh)
