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Title	Fabrication of innovative charkha for pashmina spinning and its impact assessment Not Available

Creator	Sarfaraz A. Wani, Asif H. Sofi, D.B. Shakyawar, Ishrat Yaqoob, F.A. Mattoo and A.H. Malik

Subject	charkha; pashmina; shawls and traditional

Description	Not Available Pashmina, a finest natural animal fiber is utilized for preparation of world famous Kashmiri pashmina shawls by traditional practices. Hand spinning is one of the important processing step, wherein fibers are converted into a fine yarn on a traditional spinning wheel (yander). The task is usually carried out by women folk. It is a labo-rious process resulting in a lot of physical stress affecting the efficiency of artisans. An innovative charkha has been fabricated to reduce the physical stress and its effect on the spinning efficiency and remuneration of artisans over traditional one was evaluated. The study revealed that innovative charkha was efficient in terms of time consumed for spinning by 73.50% over traditional one besides decreasing physical drudgery. In terms of in-come, there was an increase of 146% over traditional one for same period of time without deteriorating the quality of yarn. Not Available

Date	2021-06-08T06:15:14Z 2021-06-08T06:15:14Z 2013-04-11

Type	Research Paper

Identifier	Not Available Not Available http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/47142

Language	English

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