The study was conducted in Banaras district of Uttar Pradesh. The sample comprised 100 weavers from different mohallas of Banaras city.
In general, weaving involved all communities but share of Muslims were high. In early days weaving was monopolized by the Hindus (Khatri Hindus, a sub-caste), who helped the migrant Muslim weavers to establish their craft. At a present mainly Muslims (73%) are involved in hand weaving which is inherited in the religion compared to Hindus