ABSTRACT
In contrast to the automatic loom shed, where die system had already been grossly disturbed by the introduction of automatics, non-automatic weaving had remained the same since the Calico Mills were founded seventy-five years ago. Moreover the system had been imported, with the looms, from Lancashire where it had remained virtually unchanged for many years before that. The experimental reorganization has therefore been introduced into a system not only traditional in India but in the United Kingdom and elsewhere where non-automatic looms are still in use. Generations of weavers and weaving masters have subscribed not only to its technology but to its social organization.
