The Weaving and Vocational Training School in Meiktila Township, Mandalay Region, is launching the weaving and textile skills training courses to develop a new generation of skilled weavers, according to the school principal U Tha Wa.
The school offers free traditional weaving and machine weaving courses annually with the purpose of preserving the traditional Myanmar weaving and the traditional weaving of the ethnic nationalities, as well as to produce a new generation of weavers and to develop modern weaving techniques.
From 1 January 2022, 20 trainees are attending a one-year training course for weaving and textile skills and nine trainees are attending for a 6-month training course for hand weaving.
The one-year training course covers machine weaving, bleaching and colouring, hand weaving, hand threading and ethnic traditional weaving, textile design, textile math, machine threading and fibre raw materials. In the six-month weaving course, the trainees are learning machine weaving, bleaching and colouring, hand weaving, clothing design, clothing math, hand threading and ethnic traditional weaving daily from 8 am to 4 pm.—Thein Myint Kyaw (Meiktila)/GNLM
