Pochampally

Pochampally ,is a village in Nalgonda District [located just 50 km.from the state capital Hyderabad]in Andhra Pradesh in Southern India and it is popular known as silk city of India.It is an interesting collage of tradition ,history ,heritage, modernity and widely  known for Pochampally sarees.
           Pochampally is the place where threads and colours find their way into the hands of skillful weavers and meander into the market  as beautiful sarees and dress material is the most typical weaving village in Nalgonda District.
                Pochampally weave is popularly known as ikkat or tie and dye weave.The uniqueness lies in the transfer of design and colouring onto warp and weft threads first and then weave them together .The fabric is cotton ,silk and sico[a mix of silk & cotton].Increasingly the colour themselves are  from natural sources and their blends.
            Pochampally has traditional looms ,whose design is more than a century -old.Today this silk city is home to more than 10,000 weaving families in 100 villages.
           The fabric is marketed through the cooperative society and APCO,the master weavers  and the business houses in Pochampally .Also it is a perfect place to celebrate the festivals in rich colours.
            For weavers of the famed Pochampally sari in the Bhoodan Pochampally village of Andhra Pradesh,life was as complicated as the warp and  weft of the fabric they weave.For the skilled work they did,there wages were low and therefore survival was a struggle ,but on April 18,1951,the historic day of the very genesis of the Bhoodan movement .Vinoba Bhave entered the Pochampally ,a large village with about 700 families ,of whom 2/3 were landless,therefore she started Bhoodan movement where in land was donated by erstwhile zamidars towards community welfare .Hence the name"Bhoodan Pochampally" ,which is in fact the first village to be created by this movement .The place has been declared a model village due to it's cleanliness and civic amenities.