Sector leaders say majority weavers of the country are in real financial hardship as the price of almost all kinds of yarns is increasing almost every day.
Although importers claim the price hike is related to the cotton yarn's price increase in the international market, the leaders say the yarn price in the country has been going up erratically.
They have said the price of yarn which is used for cheap clothes commonly worn by poor women and men is fast spiralling out of control.
"The price that is demanded for a certain type of yarn in the morning does not remain the same in the evening," said Shahid H Shamim, president of National Craft Council of Bangladesh.
Also director of Probortona Ltd, Mr Shamim said many weavers cannot manage their daily earning as the uncontrolled hike in prices fails to keep their production cost under control.
He said it was high time the boutique houses planned and started production for the upcoming seasons, but it could not be done due to the uncontrolled price hike of yarns.
"The Tangail and Jamdani weavers are also badly affected," Mr Shamim said.
The handloom and boutique sectors mostly use yarns of 80/1, 60/1, 40/1 and 32/1 counts to make Tangail and Jamdani sarees, gamchha ( a kind of traditional towel), lungees and some other types of sarees.
According to National Craft Council of Bangladesh, the price of per pound 32/1 count yarn which is used for lungees and sarees including those with 11 arms-length (bohor) has been increased to Tk 125 from Tk 85 within months.
The price of per pound 40/1 counts, which is used for all types of cotton clothes, has also increased to Tk 155 per pound from Tk 81, while the price of per pound 80/1 count yarn which is used for Tangail and Jamdani sarees has increased to Tk 275 from Tk 175.
Raghunath Basak, president of Tangail Saree and Handloom Association in Patrail, said many Tangail saree weavers could not operate their handlooms due to the increased cost.
He said production cost of each cotton saree has increased by Tk 100 compounding the poor customers' despair .
"If the price of a saree is Tk 300 and its production cost goes up by another Tk 100, how could a marginal weaver survive with that cost," he said.
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