Reports

On
The Traditional Tangail’s Handloom
Saree.

Date Of Submission: 25 May,2015

 Reports
on
The Traditional Tangail’s Handloom saree.
Course Title: Introduction to Business
& Bangladesh Studies.
Course Code: Fin-1101.

Submitted to:
Md.Hasibul Hassan
Assistant Professor
Department Of Finance,
Jagannath University.
Dhaka.
Submitted by:
Md. Omer Sani
B-140203078
 Description of “Tangail Saree.”
Saree is the national wear of Bangladeshi
women. It is the most popular dress both for casual
& formal occasion for women in Bangladesh.
Tangail Saree is a such kind of sari.

“Tangail Saree” is one of the oldest traditional

legacy in the history of Bangldesh. Tangail is the
home of the weavers of world famous “Tangail
Saree”. It is a hand loom sari made of both cotton
& silk thread having hand worked butti design or
all over flowery design contemporary art motif
appreciated bought & used by women’s & girls of
Bangladesh & Indian origin living all over the
world.
 Tangail Sarees are famous at home &
abroad. Large number of saris are usually
sold on the occasion of Eid, Puja, Pohela
boishask & wedding season during the period
between November & February. The weavers
get orders from home & abroad.
Tangail Sarees are produced in
Tangail Sadar, Delduar, Kalihati upazila.
Patrail in delduar upazila is famous for the
fine & expensive saris. Previously it was
named as “Begum Bahar” where silk warp
& cotton weft were used.
Origin of Tangail Handloom Saree
According to history, Basak community is the
weavers of tangail. They belongs to the tribe, since
ancient times. They were one kind of vagabond. In
beginning they came in Murshidabad, west Bengal
from the Indus Basin & came to Rajshahi. As
there is not good for standard saree, they were
divided into two moves Bajitpur & Dhamrai. As
soon as they start work in Dhamrai, they are
bickering among themselves. As aresult much of
Basak is Divided into Chouhatta. They find the
best place to come to settle in Tangail.
 Due to favorable weather conditions they persist in
the full sense of the loom in this place. On the other
hand, Jamauna river’s water are suitable to washed
out the raw material. They had been working in
loom lineally from generation to generation. Once
upon a time They had lived in the most area of
Tangail. Bosak Association had trained the
inexperience weavers and control the fabric quality.

After the partition of 1947 & the liberation

war of 1971,many weavers had gone to India. In
this time, in addition to the Basak, the others
people are deeply involved with weaving. They
become efficient like Bosak in order to give
concentration on it.
Diagram of origin of Tangail Handloom
Saree

Murshidabad
West Bengal

Dhamrai Bajitpur

Chouhatta Tangail

Tangail Saree
 Manufacturing process of Tangail
Sari
Each & every thread of the Tangail Sari is
hand woven. All the process involved in
weaving a saree is carried out manually . Not
large machine is used in the steps. Each
weaver works home with some employees in
different steps of the process. It was
approximately 3-4 days (depending on the
variety of sarees) of continuous efforts from a
person for weaving saree on a handloom.
 Processing:
The core materials used for cotton for
manufacturing the saree. The weaver import
this raw materials from the Narangong
otherwise the local market at more price.
When they collects this, the raw material
remains untidy.
After collecting the untidy
cotton, they arranged
this orderly & separate
Untidy condition
the well fabrics. of raw materials.
 The major steps in manufacturing a
saree are described briefly-
Step -1: The process starts with dyeing the raw materials.
They have specially dedicated experts for this process. In
short, the coloring process includes the dipping the
material repeatedly & in the boiled water. They take the
utmost care while dying the cotton to make sure that the
color is uniformed throughout the material & it doesn’t
affect the quality of the material.

Dyeing & Coloring process

 The coloring process is a very crucial step in getting a
good saree. The colors are applied as per the
specifications from their designers & also as per the
orders from their customers.

Step-2: After coloring, the cotton is dried in the in the

sun. But some kinds of cotton are dried in shade.

Dyeing in shade Dyeing in the sun

Step-3: After the cotton dried, it is rolled over
small plastic sticks. Then they congregate the sticks
to transfer into a large wheel in a process.

Plastic sticks
The large wheel
with cotton
Processing the plastic cotton sticks into a large
wheel:
 Step-4: The design of the sarees have been
made & set up the weaving machine. The
cotton of the large ruler are also be in this.
When all the required setup is made on
the handloom machine by the exports, the
weavers starts to weave the saree. They
weave it at least 7 days to prepare 3-4 saree.

Design of saree The weaving procss

Processing Processing

Processing Complete Saree