Under the Latest and popular online series of Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya entitled ‘Exhibit of the Week’ the 'Kering / Kerang' Waist cloth made of bark string collected from 1995 was exhibited. The waist cloth relating Community of Parenga of Koraput, Odisha, it’s Measurement Length - maximum 99 cm., Width – maximum 51 cm. The fibre from Kerang (Calotropis gigantean), a deciduous shrub is used as a major element to weave Kerang. To make the fibre strong they bury the small branches under the stream or the mud for few days. The dried fibres is then polished and rolled to prepare yarn and weaving is done on their small indigenous loom.
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