Khadi

Khadi is cloth defined by who makes it and how: handspun yarn, handwoven cloth, the household textile of the Indian subcontinent. Gandhi made it a political instrument, urging Indians to spin daily on the charkha and wear khadi instead of British mill cloth, so that homespun became the uniform of the independence movement and the spinning wheel went onto the Indian flag's first designs. Khadi is the rare fabric whose definition is economic and moral as much as material: slubby, breathable, and by law in India still reserved for hand production.