Weavers in Anakaputhur near Chennai create cloth from banana trees

How could Sita ask Ravana, who had kidnapped her, for a change of clothes? So she asked Hanuman, who immediately presented her with a sari made from banana fibre,” says C Sekar, a third-generation weaver in Anakaputhur. “I read this in a weekly newspaper and from that stemmed the idea of creating banana fibre saris,” says the president of the Anakaputhur Weavers’ Association, who has pinned this small town on the international map with his ecologically conscious fabric...............Read more

Source: The New Indian Express