Poor sale of quilt upsets traders

Second-hand warm clothes and cheap rated blankets have a bad impact on the sale of quilts this season, making the traders upset in the district.

Quilt traders said they started making quilts a month ago but they are seeing poor sale till now due to low demand.

"We cannot sell expected number of quilts though the winter has set in," said Abdur Rahman, a quilt trader of Pirojpur town.

Cheap rated new blankets and second-hand warm clothes in the town's old market is the main reason behind the decrease of demand for quilts, he said.

"As a second-hand good quality blanket can be bought within Tk 300, most of the residents, especially middle class people, showed more interest to buy blankets," said Jahangir Hossain, another quilt trader in the town.

Meanwhile, sellers said a quilt is sold between Tk 900 to 1,800 according to its size and quality. 

Normally, two workers could make five quilts in a day and they did not have any leisure time in winter, Asadul, a quilt maker, said.

But this year, mostly they are passing their time idle because of poor demand for quilts, he said.