Vol. 12, Issue 7 (2023)

Author(s):
Poonam Kundu, Saroj Yadav and Kanta Sabharwal

Abstract:
Women are an important sector of our society, they constitute half of the population in the country where the major chunk belongs to rural areas. Earlier, women suffered lot of deprivation and negligence by the male dominating society, especially in rural areas. However, at present day, after overcoming all the rigid customs and traditions imposed upon them, they demonstrate their abilities by earning money through income generating activities. Therefore, present study was conducted during 2021-22 in Shahnal and Hasanga villages of Fatehabad district with the objectives to assess the feasibility of different fabric embellishment techniques among rural women entrepreneurs. The sample comprised of 40 rural women (20 from each village). Three days training was conducted in both the villages on four different embellishment techniques viz; different embroidery stitches (chain stitch, herringbone stitch, cross stitch, etc), fabric painting, block printing and tie and dye techniques. The training was conducted by learning by doing method. The skill acquisition of the respondents was worked out which revealed that nearly 60.0 percent (57.5%) of the women were able to execute the different types of stitches and tie & dye work without any difficulty while 45.0 percent women were able to do fabric painting without any difficulty.