Tirupati: The Exclaim Handloom Expo underway at Shilparamam, Tirupati, is offering weavers with an instantaneous platform to sell their products to customers, placing off middlemen.
The 14-day exhibition, titled ‘Hathkargha Mela’, began on February 22 after a jam of nearly 365 days and could per chance well merely continue unless March 7. The expo is start day-after-day from 11 am to 9 pm and is attracting every local residents and pilgrims visiting Tirumala.
About 65 stalls had been situation up by weavers from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar, Delhi and Jharkhand. Shilparamam Administrative Officer (Programmes) Okay. Khadarvalli said the expo aims to promote and attend primitive handlooms, handicrafts and rural cultural heritage.
A nice alternative of handloom sarees, including Pochampalli, Venkatagiri, Gadwal, handloom pattu, Jamdani and Mangalagiri, are on hand. Gown supplies, khadi dresses, shirting materials, bedsheets, pottery objects and handicrafts are moreover on sale.
Imitation jewellery stalls and the Narasapur crochet lace stall, offering kids’s dresses, divan units and bedsheets, secure emerged as predominant sights. Nearly 70 per cent of the stalls secure reported factual gross sales up to now. Khadarvalli said gross sales had been encouraging and appealed to the public to hunt suggestion from the expo and toughen artisans by buying at as soon as from them.
