What is the Future of Textile Technology? It is a human tendency to get attracted to what other person is wearing and wishing you had the same outfit. When we fantasize about the future, we are rigid when it is about the attitude towards clothing. Although the processes, styles, materials, and techniques of past keep … Read More →
NEW DELHI: Taking a cue from the Gujarat elections, the finance ministry is planning to dole our special package for the textile and gems & jewellery sectors in the upcoming Budget. Despite badly hit by the GST, people in the state decided to vote for the economic agenda of the Bharatiya Janata Party government. “There … Read More →
The sari never goes out of fashion. And, it’s safe to say that the audience for it keeps getting wider, and younger. Lush Benarasi silks are often passed on as heirlooms, but many are investing more and more in contemporary forms of the traditional weave. Delhi-based textile designer Tanira Sethi is catering to the market … Read More →
Telangana has offered 1,000 acres of land for a mega textile park, besides a plug-and-play model for easy operation of these units. Photo: Reuters The Telangana government has announced new incentives to attract investments in the textile and apparel sector, in what could be a wake-up call for the Tamil Nadu government to prevent a chunk of investment from shifting. Telangana has offered 1,000 acres of … Read More →
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council announced rates for the textile and other pending categories on June 3, 2017, moving one step closer to the proposed implementation of the new tax regime with effect from July 1, 2017. While rates for most commodities were announced on May 19, 2017, the announcement for the textile … Read More →
“There has been a lot of noise about UK manufacturing in the past few years, but this is probably one of the first pieces of concrete evidence to support what we’ve been hearing,” said Adam Mansell, chief executive of the UK Fashion and Textiles Association (UKFT). “It is a significant turnaround from where we were.” … Read More →