Khadi: The Fabric of Freedom

Contents:

• Foreword/Andreas Reinhart.
• Reflections on Khadi/Asha Sarabhai
• From a different cloth/Rudrangshu Mukherjee
• Khadi – the thread of inner silence/Rta Kapur-Chishti
• Photo essay/Manuel Bauer/Lookat
• Hand-spun and hand-woven : cotton Khadi in the new millennium/Rahul Jain
  1. Introduction
  2. Cotton Species and cultivation :
     1. Cotton cultivation in India
     2. Cotton varieties in India
  3. The structure and properties of cotton fibre :
     1. Chemical composition
     2. Molecular structure
     3. Physical structure and properties
  4. Pre-spinning and spinning processes :
     1. Cotton picking
     2. Ginning and baling
     3. Carding
     4. Drawing, combing, roving
     5. Spinning
  5. Weaving and finishing processes
  6. Special cotton for Khadi
  7. A future for cotton Khadi
• Concordance list
• Shanti Sutra.