Symbolic pictureAsma Akter's Manipuri Handloom
From one loom to eighteen: Manipuri saris woven at home, and training for other women
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- Sells products
- Visitors welcome
- Teaches
About
About ten years ago Asma Akter (50), a homemaker in Moddhobhag, Adampur union of Kamolganj, set out to beat her family's hardship by learning to weave saris on a Manipuri loom from Bilkis Begum in nearby Bongaon village. She bought a Manipuri loom for Tk 6,000 and set it up at home, weaving two pieces a week at first. Loom by loom she grew to five, with 10 women working under her and five to seven saris made a week. She now has 18 looms at home and in other places. She buys yarn at Adampur bazar, and wholesalers collect the finished saris from her house. Many local women come to her to learn weaving and she trains those who are interested. She earns about Tk 50,000 a month, which put a daughter and a son through their degrees; another son is studying medicine.
Products and services
Manipuri handloom saris
Woven on her 18 looms; wholesalers collect from her house
Address and hours
Address
The owner chose not to show the full address; ask them.
To learn or to work here
Teaches
Teaches interested women to weave saris on Manipuri looms
Visitors welcome
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