What is Pattu?
In this project, the team- Bhanvi, Harshit, Ipsita and Josephine set out to Chamba, Himachal Pradesh to learn about the handicraft of the Kullu people known as pattu weaving. We plan to learn about the craft, thr process of making it, it's tools, history, significance and why the art is slowly dying. We will be setting out to use the crafts in our own ways and attempt to make it more fitting to the modern world. But first of all let's answer the most pressing question of all-
What is a Pattu?
What is a Pattu?
A Pattu is the traditional shawl of the Gaddi tribe. The Gaddi tribe is a semi- nomadic tribe who graze their kettle from Punjab to Himachal Pradesh through a year. They inhabit both the hills of Chamba and Kullu there.
The Pattu is made up of sheep wool that the tribes gaze themselves.
There is a lot of misconception about the colors and variations of the Pattu and where they come from. Most think that they are the traditional handlooms of the Kullu people while they in fact come from the Gaddi tribe.
The pattus come in 108 inches x 45 inches dimensions. They originally come in only two color ways. One in white and one deep brown- The natural color of the sheep wool.
It only came plain.
Later on in history, the Gaddi tribe learnt how to make a similar kind, and mixed the colors, developing a checkered, more tightly woven variation and called it the 'patti'. This would later be known as the Gaddi weave.
The main characteristics of what makes a pattu a pattu is the fact that it is plain, is woven out of the sheep that is herd by the Gaddi tribe and it's loom.
The patti and pattu have similar looms. The main difference being that the loom for the pattu comes with an automatic shuttle that can be set off using ropes. The shuttle of the gaddi weave is different in nature and has to be manually set off.
The Pattu is made up of sheep wool that the tribes gaze themselves.
There is a lot of misconception about the colors and variations of the Pattu and where they come from. Most think that they are the traditional handlooms of the Kullu people while they in fact come from the Gaddi tribe.
The pattus come in 108 inches x 45 inches dimensions. They originally come in only two color ways. One in white and one deep brown- The natural color of the sheep wool.
It only came plain.
Later on in history, the Gaddi tribe learnt how to make a similar kind, and mixed the colors, developing a checkered, more tightly woven variation and called it the 'patti'. This would later be known as the Gaddi weave.
The main characteristics of what makes a pattu a pattu is the fact that it is plain, is woven out of the sheep that is herd by the Gaddi tribe and it's loom.
The patti and pattu have similar looms. The main difference being that the loom for the pattu comes with an automatic shuttle that can be set off using ropes. The shuttle of the gaddi weave is different in nature and has to be manually set off.
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