Srinivas

Bhoodan Pochampally · Third generation · Resist-dyed geometry

• Dyeing

Languages

Telugu, Hindi

Household

Runs the oldest dye pit in the cluster with his father.

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Srinivas is a dyer, not a weaver, and the distinction matters to him: the telia oil treatment his family keeps takes weeks of working oil and alkali into the yarn before any colour goes near it. Most of what makes a Pochampally black stay black happens in his pit, a month before the loom.