How to soak up the Pollachi experience?
Try your hand at pottery, spend a day farming with an award-winning agripreneur or trek to the foothills of Anamalai Hills soaking up the Pollachi experience Source link
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Tag: Weavers
National Handloom Day: In Hyderabad, Gaurang Shah showcases exquisite handloom saris, including a muslin jamdani fine enough to pass the ring test
Hyderabad-based textile designer Gaurang Shah’s Whispers of the Loom showcased a wide range of handlooms from different pockets of India, to mark National Handloom Day on August 7. | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal How well do we know our handlooms? A habitual wearer of handlooms or anyone with a keen interest in the sector would […]
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Hyderabad designer Shravan Kummar to showcase handlooms from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh at the forthcoming NATA and TANA summits
Kavya Venkatramana, Nisshka Jaisooria, Meera Khandelwal, Vishal Siwach, Shloka Madhu, Bal Krishna and Ratna Rao sport handloom collections by designer Shravan Kummar | Photo Credit: RAGI/Special Arrangement Pochampally ikats, Ponduru khadi and weaves from Mangalagiri, Venkatagiri, Gadwal and Narayanpet have an immediate recall value at the mention of textiles and handlooms from Telangana and Andhra […]
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Handlooms and lace to protest fashion, FDDI Hyderabad students show their mettle
Student designers of FDDI Hyderabad showcase a handloom collection in collaboration with weavers of Karwan | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Graduation shows at fashion schools are an indication of the unbridled creative instincts of budding designers. Sans filters that come in later for commercial viability, they showcase the skills of these designers who are unafraid […]
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurates Balaramapuram Handloom Producer Company Ltd
She urges the industry to diversify products to boost profitability and attract youth to handloom products She urges the industry to diversify products to boost profitability and attract youth to handloom products Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman urged the handloom industry to diversify products for boosting profitability and attracting the younger generation to handloom products. […]
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Withdraw GST on handloom products: KTR
Urges weavers, patrons of handlooms to also write postcards for waiver of the levy Urges weavers, patrons of handlooms to also write postcards for waiver of the levy Handlooms and Textiles Minister K. T. Rama Rao has called for a postcard campaign appealing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for rollback of the 5% Goods and […]
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Masterweaver Saeed Ur Rahman on unique handloom Banarasi saris and the pandemic-induced challenges
Saeed Ur Rahman, one of the prominent masterweavers in Banaras, is confident that handlooms will continue to find patronage among those who want textiles of artistic quality Saeed Ur Rahman, one of the prominent masterweavers in Banaras, is confident that handlooms will continue to find patronage among those who want textiles of artistic quality Saeed […]
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Rights of the loom: Malvika Singh discusses her Sarees of Memory project
Malvika Singh’s Sarees of Memory project revives 21 traditional drapes from around the country, and gifts the weavers design ownership Malvika Singh’s Sarees of Memory project revives 21 traditional drapes from around the country, and gifts the weavers design ownership A sunny, sweltering summer afternoon in Delhi sees the gates of the Brazilian embassy open […]
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