Why did Mahatma Gandhi lay emphasis on spinning yarn and weaving khadi?

(i) Weaving is done by handloom, power loom and in mills.

(ii) The handspun Khadi provides large-scale employment to weavers in their homes as a cottage industry.

(iii) Mahatma Gandhi also wanted to propagate the use of the indigenous Khadi material to revive the jobs of jobless weavers during the British period.