With progressing years and new developments Handlooms have been taken over by the Powerlooms. Due to fast process and less costing Handlooms are replaced with Powerlooms taking away the glory of hand woven Paithani. The authenticity of a hand woven Paithani is killed because of the cheap imitated Paithani sarees made on Powerloom are easily available in the market .
A hand woven Paithani takes from 10days to 1 year to complete one saree depending upon the intricacy of the design.While, on a powerloom approximately 5-6 sarees can be made.This makes powerloom an inexpensive process compared to handloom as the labour work required in handloom is done by computerized machines. The finishings required is not acquired due to mass production on the power looms. One can make out the difference between a handwoven and powerloom paithani by observing the back of the saree .A handwoven Paithani has small knots at the back and no yarn floats on the back like the powerloom ones has.
Paithani of Maharashtra 