Twenty one feet long and four feet wide bedsheet painted with the life history of the Gautama Buddha, displayed in the theme pavilion of National Handloom Expo 2013-2014 is the main highlight in the expo and is attracting customers in large number.
The bed sheet made up with handmade cloth depicts the Sarnath and life history of Buddha is the unique and new innovation of hand painting in the expo. This bed sheet is displayed as a hand painted wall panel in the theme pavilion in handloom expo and is presented in the collection of weaver service centre Chamoli.
Coordinator of theme pavilion and member of weaver service centre RV Pushkar and SP Khanduri said that wall panel and cloth is designed by the designer and painter
Vishu Mandal. Pushkar said that with the help of pavilion “we tried to display the best and unique handloom products of the country”.
He also said that various products such as woollen shawl from Chamoli, vegetable dye woollen mat, tussar silk scarf, handicraft wall panel of Meerut, printed bed
cover, tissue silk saree from Varanasi, zari brocade, tissue brocade, tanchui silk saree, nilambari cotton saree, organic brocade, kanji jamawar of Kashmir, patola saree of Gujarat, bomkai saree of Orissa, tie and die cotton from Andra Pradesh, tissue brocade saree, brocade spread from Tamil Nadu, woollen scarf of Delhi, double cloth cotton spread, printed bed sheet, silk patola scarf from Andra Pradesh and others are displayed in the pavilion.
Handloom weaving machine and wheel is also displayed in the pavilion. Assistant Director (handloom) Shelly Dabral said that with the help of pavilion “we are trying to provide information about new technologies and designs in handloom products to our customers and stall owners”.