It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Humaira Ferdous Shifa

Heritage Weaves / Jamdani

15 July 2022

3 minutes

Jamdani is a time-consuming and labour-intensive form of weaving because of the richness of its motifs, which are created directly on the loom using the discontinuous weft technique.

Machine Learning to the Rescue in Bangladesh's Bid to Preserve Traditional Jamdani Motifs

A one of its kind dataset of jamdani motifs in digital format has been developed by students in Bangladesh in a bid to preserve the centuries old “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity”.

Staff Writer