Silk saree manufacturing has been hit in Kancheepuram as cooperative societies are unable to acquire gold coated zari. Weavers stated that they’ve been ready for zari since December.
“The zari manufacturing unit stopped manufacturing in December finish as they didn’t get the silver strands from Surat. With gold and silver costs hovering, a call was taken to lower the silver content material from 40% to 30% and that of gold from 0.5% to 0.4%. Although weavers opposed this, the federal government went forward with this resolution. However even that has not paid off,” stated Jeeva of the Kamatchi Amman Cooperative Society.
He stated that since weavers didn’t get zari, they have been unable to weave silk sarees and haven’t gotten their wages for over two months now. “Individuals are unable to pay rents attributable to this. It’s a lack of about ₹30,000 per weaver for 2 months.”
Viswanathan of Anna Cooperative Society stated that with weavers not having the ability to produce silk sarees, the varied cooperatives within the city have been dropping prospects. “It’s now the marriage season and folks from throughout normally flock to Kancheepuram to purchase high quality sarees from the cooperatives. However now consumers are shifting to non-public distributors,” he stated.
Weavers are hoping that the federal government will step in and procure high quality zari in order that manufacturing of silk sarees can resume.
Printed – February 12, 2026 12:40 am IST
