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Textile crafts of kashmir

The beautiful territory of Jammu and Kashmir JK situated in the Himalayan mountains is rightly known as Heaven on Earth Srinagar is the summer capital of this state while Jammu is its winter capital This state has Kashmiri and Urdu as its major languages The state can be divided into three major parts Jammu the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh The state of Kashmir is not only famous for its wonderful climate and natural beauty but also for its exquisite textile crafts This article aims at studying the major textile crafts that have been prevalent in Kashmir since long such as Kashmiri carpets shawls tweed silk as well as embroideryThe Kashmir carpet industry is famous the world over Kashmiri carpets are loved not only by the people of India but also by people in other countries It is believed that the art of weaving Kashmiri carpets originated in Persia Usually either silk or wool is used in making carpets Sometimes a combination of silk and wool is used Mercerized cotton is also sometim...
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The pakistan textile industry an overview

The textile industry is one of the most important sectors of Pakistan It contributes significantly to the countrys GDP exports as well as employment It is in fact the backbone of the Pakistani economyEstablished capacityThe textile industry of Pakistan has a total established spinning capacity of 1550 million kgs of yarn weaving capacity of 4368 million square metres of fabric and finishing capacity of 4000 million square metres The industry has a production capacity of 670 million units of garments 400 million units of knitwear and 53 million kgs of towelsThe industry has a total of 1221 units engaged in ginning and 442 units engaged in spinning There are around 124 large units that undertake weaving and 425 small units There are around 20600 power looms in operation in the industry The industry also houses around 10 large finishing units and 625 small units Pakistans textile industry has about 50 large and 2500 small garment manufacturing units Moreover it also houses around 60...
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Moisture absorbent fabric an idea new to textile industry

What is more comfortable than moisture absorbent fabric Moisture Management is the newest concept in the textile industry This is the latest concept of the fabric which gives comforts The market of moisture management fabric is not the same as the apparel industry The Moisture Management fabric is for the highperformance end of the market and it drew the attention of the highend performance usersNowadays Moisture Management Fabric is the new and demanding concept in the Textile Industry It is a kind of fabric which absorbs the moisture from the wearer and moves it away from the garment This kind of action helps to make skin moisture free The action of this fabric helps in preventing the moisture next to the skin During hard physical activity body sweats and the moisture traps out in conventional clothing like cotton The moisture locks out between clothing and body and then it increases body temperature and perspiration even more Excessive perspiration can lead one to diminished performance an...
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Textile exhibitions

Textile exhibitions are good to show forth the current textile products and new ones to be launched Many companies get to know each other through such meets and may even develop into good partnerships Now consider this Textile Industry is one of the biggest oldest and the most branched industries by numbers In todays world most of the Asian Middle Eastern and European countries are in competition to get the most benefit out of the business Being a highly and a globally competitive industry textile companies need exposure in order to capture potential markets as well as other industries which require competition Textile industry is one of the oldest industries because of the need of protection of human body However the introduction of artificial fibers goes back to the beginning of 20th Century around 1920s The demand for exposure in the market has been so high for especially the last decade that organizing an exhibition itself has become a sector If we come to the history of texti...
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The textile industry of surat

Surat an emerging city in the state of Gujarat is known as the textile city of Gujarat And the epithet is perfectly suited to the city The textile industry is one of the oldest and the most widespread industries in Surat A major part of the citys population is associated with the textile industry Overview of the Surat textile industryThe textile industry in Surat is mainly engaged in the activities of yarn production weaving processing as well as embroidery Surat is well known for its synthetic products market It is mainly engaged in the production and trading of synthetic textile products Nearly 30 million metres of raw fabric and 25 million metres of processed fabric are produced in Surat daily The city has several textile markets that exist since times immemorial Zampa Bazaar Bombay Market JJ Textile Market and Jash Market are among them Katat Gam Magdalla and Udhana are the areas of Surat where manufacturing is mainly concentrated In the course of time people from various ot...
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History of textilesan overview

Textile weaving is w occasionally architecture volume the too oldest of the arts and record time fm the earliest periods of sometimes history It was accepted in Egypt and records are slowly found showing fact that a fiery speech was practiced at pretty a the maximum rate of pretty a little remote fella in the Far East The Chinese developed the silk looms and wove brocades of such rare beauty fact that they are cherished as with museum pieces and quietly used in behalf of great excitement occasionally to pretty this d For great while the violent of the base of silk fiber was carefully circumspect Silk cocoons were at the end smuggled into I in the headdress of pretty a Chinese prince and from there into Byzantium I au fait silk weaving fm the sometimes expert weavers of China The Greeks and the a little civilized ppl of the Near East just as soon developed textile manner production Monuments of Assyrian and Persian carve and Gk vases instinctively show drap...
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Ludhiana textile cluster makes strategic shifts to beat downturn

After suffering for almost a year on account of labour shortages and plunging overseas and domestic sales the Ludhiana textile cluster has decided to fight the recessionary demons through both strategic and tactical responses Textile units are rewriting governing practices to cope with the adverse effects of the slowdown According to the findings of a recently conducted study MSME textile clusters in Ludhiana are reviewing their business strategies to find viable solutions to their existing problems which largely arose due to the recession The study was commissioned by the International Labour Organisation ILO and conducted by the Federation of Indian Micro Small and Medium Enterprises FISME in association with Market Insight Consultants Finding a way out The MSME Ludhiana textile cluster is now making strategic shifts in their focus and turning to the domestic market for better returns and healthy offtake in the current financial year Besides textile firms with diversified businesses have...
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