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New designs soon for Bhavani carpets

By Our Staff Reporter

COIMBATORE Dec. 28. The Textiles Committee here is working on a programme to evolve new designs for handloom carpets produced in the Bhavani area to improve their export potential.

Committee sources told The Hindu that Bhavani had a number of handloom units involved in production of home furnishing products like carpets (`jamukaalam').

Representatives from about 15 units at Bhavani and Chennimalai were recently taken on an exposure visit to the units in Alapuzha, Kozhikode and Kannur, in Kerala.

Following this, it was decided to involve experts in developing new and creative designs for the carpets made by the Bhavani units.

Details of the agreement such as whether new designs could be evolved for each unit or a common training programme could be provided were yet to be worked out.

A similar exposure visit was organised earlier this year to Panipet, Haryana, and subsequently select weavers were trained in making hand-tufted carpets.

The sources said that under a cluster programme taken up by the committee for the home-furnishing units in the Bhavani and Chennimalai areas, a consortium of private units was being formed with a minimum of six members.

Through the consortium, efforts would be initiated to help the units improve direct exports.

A series of training programmes would be conducted as soon as the consortium was formed.

Further, a ``processing park'' project for select processing units in the Bhavani area was also mooted.

It would consist only of processing units and would have common infrastructure, including an effluent treatment plant.

Nearly 30 small-scale hand processors had expressed willingness to participate in this programme.

The details of this project were yet to be finalised, said the sources.

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