The Bangladesh Handloom Board was established in January 1978 by the government of Bangladesh. It is managed by the Ministry of Textiles and Jute. It oversees the work of 1.5 million individual
handloom workers in Bangladesh. It works for the preservation of classical Bangladesh weaving techniques of
Benaras Palli,
jamdani, and
muslin. In 1981 it established a professional training institute for the use of handloom, in
Narsingdi. In 2013, the Bangladesh Handloom Board Act was passed which made minor amendments to how often the board should meet. ==References==