The Marwada communities, creative, versatile, textile weavers, leather and woodworkers, are the origins of the nowadays weavers in Kutch region (Gujarat, India).

For socio-economical reasons the weavers would always be linked with their local clients, who were either from a pastoral community (like the Rabaris who would supply the yarn from sheep and goats) or from a farming community like the Ahirs (who cultivated Kala Cotton). For this reason, Kutchi woven fabrics were used to have designs replicating the lifestyle of the communities who wore them, such as musical instruments, the footsteps of an animal herd, etc.