Junior science refresher magazine
Junior science refresher magazine published this article 35 The village economy depended on women continuing to wear these traditional sarees for weddings festivals and special occasions. Sathyaís father had a picture cut-out from a magazine of a famous film star in one of his sarees. Sathyaís grandfather was now too frail and blind to weave the intricate sarees. He told Sathya stories of the days many hundred years ago when South Indian weavers were one of the richest communities in India. Their wealth built the huge temples and funded royal armies. Whole communities were known for their weaving skills and their surnames proudly denoted their trade Vankars in Gujarat Ansaris in UP Mehers in Orissa just as the Kutchi Khatris were dyers and printers. Sathya knows that these days even highly skilled weavers are desperately poor even though their sarees are worn only by the very rich. Weavers depend on traders for loans in order to pay for the expensive silk and gold yarn from which the sarees are woven. Machine-made sarees made in the big industrial mills and cheap synthetic silk copies from China are taking over the market bright group of publications junior science refresher
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