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Kasti weaving · from thread to Kasti

Parsi Kasti Weaving Process

How a Parsi Kasti is woven by hand at PalV's Kasti, Ahmedabad: the wool thread, the tools, and the Kasti taking shape on the loom.

Step 1

The thread and the tools

Two balls of white wool thread (dari)

Parsi Dari: the wool thread

Wooden Parsi rethio (spinning tool)

Parsi Rethio

Parsi trakh spindle

Parsi Trakh

Wooden Parsi jantar frame

Parsi Jantar

Parsi jantar with threads

Parsi Jantar (close-up)

Step 2

Weaving on the loom

Khangu and vishu on the Kasti loom

Parsi Khangu Vishu

Parsi Kasti stretched on the jantar

Parsi Kasti on Jantar

Weaving a Parsi Kasti on the loom

Weaving Parsi Kasti

Weaved Parsi Kasti on the loom

Weaved Parsi Kasti

Close-up of a woven Parsi Kasti

Parsi Kasti Weaved

Handwoven Kasti, straight from the weavers

72 woollen threads, woven by hand by our family in Ahmedabad.