As for the motifs and intricacies of usage, it varies from the now omnipresent jacquard to the much subtler adai technique. “Some of the old designs woven using the adai technique and simple and elegant. To arrive at patterns using the adai technique, weavers use a softer, high quality zari. And Palanivelu, a weaver who works with the Registry team, explains what makes the adai technique unique. The slight irregularities in motifs and the attention given to details in hand drawing, he explains, isn’t the same as a computer replicating a pattern over a hundred times.

Source: The Hindu September 04, 2016 08:37 UTC