Indianever fully Shared Gandhi'sdreamof a small-scale, self-sufficienteconomy, its swadeshi (own-country) garmentsmade of hand-spun yarn hand-woven on home looms.
Production of the material includes several stages: silk floss is spun into yarn by hand, with patterns added by hand-tying bundles of yarn before dyeing the yarn with indigo, then the silk is woven using a back-tension loom.