Suka / Weaver registerW-03
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Anitha Devi
Siddipet · Fourth generation · Extra-weft figure
- Weaving
- Finishing
- Languages
- Telugu
- Household
- Teaches her daughter on the same loom, evenings only.
- On record
- 0 pieces in the catalogue
Anitha is one of a handful of weavers still carrying the Gollabhama figure, the milkmaid worked across the pallu in extra weft with a separate spool for every repeat. A full pallu takes her a month, and she keeps a paper chart of figure counts her grandmother drew, folded inside the loom's bench.
The loom is not only work. It is how I remember my mother, and how I teach my daughter.
From her workshop
Record 004 · Siddipet, Telangana
The Milkmaid in Extra Weft
Anitha Devi · 24 days · 04 artisans · 72 loom hours