Manipur is considering a policy measure to replace fabrics used in stitching school uniforms with the state’s handloom products, chief minister Nongthombam Biren Singh said while inaugurating the first handloom and handicrafts mall in Imphal East district last week. The mall is being run by the Manipur Handloom and Handicrafts Development Corporation (MHHDC) Ltd.Pic: ShutterstockThe chief minister said half of the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) business in Manipur is owned by women,

A number of new brands, manufacturers and fabric mills have joined Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Jeans Redesign initiative, pledging to meet guidelines setting out minimum requirements on garment durability, material health, recyclability and traceability.The latest brands to join the project, which was launched by Make Fashion Circular, an initiative from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, are Ateliers and Repairs, Bam Bamboo Clothing, Blue of a kind, Fairblue Jeans, Frank and Oak, and Guess.New ma

Under the Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP) approved during the 10th Five Year Plan in 2005, the ministry of textiles sanctioned 59 textile parks, out of which only 22 have been completed while the rest are under various stages of construction, textiles minister Smriti Irani informed parliament lower house recently. Progress in SITP’s growth has been slow, she said.Shutterstock"The slow progress in the implementation of the textile parks under the SITP has been attributed primarily

UK-based apparel personalisation fulfilment businesses Slick Stitch, which offers a full suite of technology-led solutions like warehousing, garment embellishment and consumer logistics, recently acquired DollyMix Boutique, a leading player in children’s wear personalisation in the United Kingdom. Slick Stitch operates in the United States, Europe and Asia.Pic: DollyMix BoutiqueWhile Wolverhampton-based Slick Stitch is looking to accelerate growth in the United Kingdom and abroad in the coming y

The fashion industry worldwide is immensely overburdened with overstock, throwaway clothes, single-use plastics ending up in landfills or released micro particles-dyes and chemicals polluting the marine system and putting the lives of living creations at risk.Figure 1:Digitized data system ensures no more dead stock.The giant brands, fashion retailers operate mostly in an open-loop business model which is day by day increasing the never-ending fashion waste.For years researchers, scientists, man

ITMACH India will once again showcase the latest textile technologies and machinery to the Indian textiles industry from 5-8 December 2019. The International Textile Machinery & Accessories Exhibition will be held in the country’s most vibrant textiles manufacturing hub – Gujarat.“The third edition of ITMACH India is even more significant for the Indian and the South Asian textiles industry as it is among the largest textile machinery shows being organised in India, close on the heels of ITM

The Innovation HubThe necessity of an effective Innovation Hub in Bangladesh textile and apparel industry is felt even more badly amid the current phase of difficult time while the export growth is being hit by global changes. For any industry or individual, ‘change’ must be something ‘constant’. But of course, today it seems we need a mechanism of a big or ‘substantial change’ in a difficult time because we didn’t do in the time when we had affluence.More than one year ago I have written an art

A career in textile printing has an enormous opportunity to extend occupational success in Bangladesh. But the expertise has never grown from the graduates of fashion or print institutes. Ideally, a textile printing factory requires plenty of human hand involvement and also it has an extensive production floor to maintain. So, overall team and floor management is the prime area of responsibility that is considered for textile printing management.Figure 1: Auko Tex Group set a world class design

According to Bluesign, a system that provides sustainable environments for people to work in, brands will have final say on success of Green Button depending on how they choose to market it as they tell story behind their label. The Green Button was created to achieve environmental, social and economic improvements along entire textile supply chain.Pic: BluesignThe Green Button, a German government ‘meta label’ is not yet a final method or confirmed best available technique. The meta label compr

India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth touched six-year low of 4.5 per cent in July-September 2019, according to official data. This is the lowest since the country registered GDP growth of 4.3 per cent in January-March 2012-13. In the previous quarter of the current fiscal, the economic growth was 5 per cent, while it was 7 per cent in Q2 FY 2018-19.Pic: ShutterstockThe decrease in GDP growth is mainly due to deceleration in manufacturing output and subdued farm sector activity, the re