Siripuram is a village and a gram panchayat of Ramannapet Mandal, Nalgonda District, in Telangana state in India.

Siripuram is the place of a long-known traditional weaving process called ikat.

In a village with a population of over 4,500 people, 2,000 of them are weavers out of which 20 families are Muslims and the rest are Padmashali Hindus.

Men and women both do the weaving, walking, spooling, spinning, tying and dyeing, There are nearly 30Master Weavers and very few people work on their own and sell their products on their own.

Sahukars who are the middlemen selling the products woven by the weavers to different people using different media.

There are nearly 30 sahukars in the village and 20 of them export their ikat products to different parts of India like Odisha, Jharkhand and other eastern states.

Some sahukars have the entire process unit under their control or they just pay local artisans to work for them.

The yarns are sourced from NHDC and are then distributed to the weavers according to the order size.

Very few artisans get the privilege of designing their own fabrics and carrying out their own business at market.

In one complete circle of the ‘adda’ 25 meters length of yarn is warped.

Weft preparation - The yarn is rotated on a charkha so that it gets transferred to the shuttle and then it goes for weaving.

Nowadays, for warp direction ikat, no graph paper is used because the artisans are so skilled that they can imagine the design and without any rough draft can start the tying and dyeing.

With the help of rubber strips from cycle tires, they tie the yarns tightly so that those portions are resisted and the dye does not penetrate that area.

For very fine designs, they tie cotton yarns very tightly around the area which has to be resisted.