Pacts aim to strengthen textile data, planning and research systems. The Ministry of Textiles has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with 15 States under the Textiles…
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Sustainability is becoming central to cotton production, as farmers, manufacturers, and buyers recognise the need to balance output with environmental responsibility, shares Suketu Shah. Cotton, often…
During the last fiscal year, the top five export destinations for this sector were identified as the US, Bangladesh, China, Sri Lanka, and the UAE. The…
India’s textiles sector has been attracting a lot of investment from the UAE as the country is trying to promote the exports of handloom textiles in the next 3 years.
India’s textiles sector has been attracting a lot of investment from the UAE as the country is trying to promote the exports of handloom textiles in the next 3 years.
The clothes reflect the personality of individuals and can be used as a marker of a group, community, family, region and even country. Khadi is one such cloth that had played a key role in the freedom struggle of India and thus has been referred to as the ‘fabric of Indian independence’, narrate Shruti Gupta, Deepali Rastogi and Ritu Mathur.
Clothing is among the basic amenities required by the 1.2105 billion strong, and growing, population of India. The Indian textile industry, which caters to this need, has an estimated market size of $108 billion. There are two broad segments within the industry, namely the traditional hand-woven and hand-spun textile segments, and the modernised mill segment (Nair & Dhanuraj, 2016).
Founded in March 2016, Fabriclore is a Jaipur-based organisation, with a penchant for telling vivid stories through their collaboration with indigenous designers. A brainchild of three friends ? Sandeep, Anupam and Vijay, Fabriclore sets out for a tough task to constantly inspire creative people to achieve stand-out boho and fusion designs in both, clothing and home furnishing.