Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
Year : 2019, Volume : 10, Issue : 10
First page : ( 114) Last page : ( 117)
Print ISSN : 0976-0245. Online ISSN : 0976-5506.
Article DOI : 10.5958/0976-5506.2019.02779.7

Health Issue as One of the Barrier to Women Weavers

Saikia Raju

Research Scholar, Gauhati University

Online published on 23 December, 2019.

Abstract

Health is an important factor for the up gradation of the society as a whole. A person with a good health can contribute more to the working than a person with bad health. Weaving is one of the activity which require the use of whole body and the mental and the physical strength. Weavers are a person whose job is to weaves cloth. Weaving involves using a loom to interlace two sets of threads at right angles to each other. Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of Yarns or thread are interlaced at right angles to form a Fabric or cloth. Other method are knitting, crocheting, felting, and braiding. The longitudinal threads are called thewarp and the lateral threads are the Weft or filling. The method in which these threads are inter-woven affects the characteristics of the cloth Weaving can be summarized as a repetition of these three actions, shedding, Picking, Beating Up or battening which are primary motion of the loom, let of motion and take up motion is a secondary motion of the loom and lastly warp and weft is the tertiary motion of loom. The health issue can be one of the barriers to women weavers. The paper is based on primary data were it tries to focus on the health condition of the people and their impact on weaving. The primary data has been collected on the basis of simple random samplingfrom the district of Lakhimpur in Assam.

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Keywords

Health, weavers, shedding, picking, Motion.

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