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Women working on a solar-powered loom
can produce many times more fabric than a
conventionally powered loom.
Using the Sun's power
to empower women
G
reenwear Fashion, based in Lucknow, India,
is taking sustainability to the next level with
help from the sun. The company spins its yarn
on solar charkhas or spinning wheels, weaves
fabrics on solar looms and stitches garments on
solar-powered sewing machines.
Founded in 2016, Greenwear Fashion Private
Limited is powered by renewable energy to create
high-quality yet affordable textiles and garments.
Greenwear also empowers women by providing
" homespun " equipment to rural women enabling
them to spin yarns at home, while the fabrics
are woven by traditional weavers or trained loom
operators. Rural women comprise more than 81
percent of the total female workforce in India.
" Greenwear's focus since its inception revolved
around creating livelihood opportunities for rural
women and reducing the fashion industry's carbon
footprint, " says founder and CEO Abhishek Pathak.
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Pathak's inspiration came at the Indian
International Trade Fair in 2016, where he first saw
a solar charkha designed by IIT-Delhi. The machine
was efficient, reduced drudgery, and was powered
by clean energy.
In a manual charkha, an operator can only spin
60-100 grams of yarn in an 8-hour day, while with a
solar charkha, the spun yarn output can reach the
1-kilogram mark-a little over 2 pounds. One woman
can easily run two machines simultaneously and
earn more money while working from her home.
Greenwear also uses solar-powered looms which are
capable of weaving 24 meters of fabric in 8 hours. The
company encourages and facilitates existing power
loom weavers to convert their looms to solar power.
The solar-powered machines are easy to operate
and have no issues with power shortages or
energy waste. " I was mindful about going about the
operations sustainably, as I was concerned about
increasing pollution. I did not want to contribute to
environmental degradation in any way. Our primary
mission is to create better livelihood opportunities for
at least 5,000 rural women through solar charkhabased
spinning and allied activities, " Pathak says.

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