NALSAR Law University in Hyderabad has offered to work with weavers and draft a new law to highlight their concerns to strengthen the struggling handloom industry, according to university academic Amita Dhanda. 

He was speaking at an event on ‘rethinking Indian industrialisation of crafts’ at Chirala in Andhra Pradesh where 300 weavers met academics.

The week-long global event in mid-November, organised by REEDS, a Hyderabad-based non-governmental organisation, witnessed a discussion on ‘knowledge in handloom weaving in India’ with speakers from Oxford University, NALSAR, Columbia University, the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and institutes from the Netherlands, Germany and Italy, according to a report in a top Indian business daily.

Weavers from Thailand, Taiwan, China and Laos shared their weaving techniques at the event.