Asu Making Machine

Asu Making Machine required a hand winding process of yarn (locally termed as Asu) before weaving various patterns on the loom in the traditional a Tie & Dyea process. This is a very tedious and cumbersome process, involves about 9000 to and fro hand movements for each saree , Ideally takes about 5-6 hours, practically 1 day or 1.5 -2 days. Only women folk performed the task for decades

a cInnovator Mr C Mallesham a traditional weaver, has made a device to mechanize this process and relieve women from 8-9 hours of labour everyday .

a cThe machine will helps weavers save time as it just takes 90 minutes to weave a saree with machine as compared to the four hours required in the manual process. This has brought a revolution in the weaver community

a cWomen would suffer no more from Back pains, loss of eye sight due to the manual Asu making process

a cIncreased number of sarees can be produced by sharing of work between men and women.

a cFrom about 6-8 sarees/month, now they can produce about10-11 sarees