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Related Keywords: a cotton fabric, Breathe by Milliken, cotton fabric, cotton-linen blend, Everyday Twill collection, Loft, performance fabrics, polyester

Aaron Larry, Bauhaus EVP said that, “While performance fabrics have been in high demand for quite a while now, Breathe by Milliken offers a sustainable performance story that will resonate with our customers.” Milliken & Co. has expanded it’s Breathe by Milliken collection of performance fabrics and the line now includes Loft, a cotton fabric, and new colors for the Everyday Twill collection.

Related Keywords: 15 percent, CITI, Confederation of Indian Textile Industry, cotton fabric, fabric and garment producers, FTA nations such as Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, gone up dramatically post GST from July, MMF fabrics, raise import duty on man-made fibre yarn, ring-fence local yarn, threats of cheaper import, urged commerce and textile ministries

The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has urged commerce and textile ministries to raise import duty on man-made fibre (MMF) yarn, cotton fabric and MMF fabrics by 15 percent to ring-fence local yarn, fabric and garment producers from the threats of cheaper import, especially from FTA nations such as Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

According to data shared by CITI, imports of cotton yarn, man-made yarn and fabric have gone up dramatically post GST from July.

Related Keywords: Art of weaving muslin, cotton fabric, dying out, mainly produced in Bengal and Dhaka, muslin woven by hand, No machine till date to match quality, work of muslin weavers put on display

To create awareness about the art of weaving muslin, a cotton fabric mainly produced in Bengal and Dhaka, once very popular which is dying out as few families are striving to revive the tradition. The work of these weavers was put on display at the C P Arts Centre on Eldams Road until Sunday.
No machine till date has been able to match the quality of muslin woven by hand. In fact, that has been the reason for its downfall.

Related Keywords: cost effective, cotton fabric, current method releases formaldehyde, develop a cross-linking method, for human health, hazardous chemical, method for making eco friendly, team in ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering reports, using citric acid with xylitol, wrinkle resistant, wrinkle resistant cotton fabrics, Yiqi Yang and colleagues

Cotton fabric with wrinkle resistant get popular, a team in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering reports method for making wrinkle-resistant cotton fabrics that is more environmentally friendly and cost effective. As the current methods for making these textiles often release formaldehyde – a chemical that in large amounts is hazardous to human health – into the air and water.

Related Keywords: cotton fabric, cotton yarn, decline in overall textile exports, four hours a day basis, objecting the rate of LNG, Punjab based textile industry, quantitative terms, restore gas supply, SNGPL, spinners and weavers, Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Company Ltd, supply sixty MMCFD LNG, textile millers, USD nine per MMBTU

The Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Company Ltd (SNGPL) following the directions on Thursday from Federal Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar restores gas supply for four hours a day basis to Punjab based textile industry, said industry sources. The SNGPL would supply 60 MMCFD LNG at the cost of $9 per MMBTU against the industry demand from both spinners and weavers asking for LNG supply at the rate of $8.5 per MMBTU.

Related Keywords: bedwear exports, cotton fabric, earning, import of synthetic fiber raised, knitwear exports, lower compared to previous fiscal, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Pakistan textile and garment exports, synthetic and artificial silk yarn, textile machinery import declinerd, value of textile and apparel exports, witnessed growth

Pakistan textile and garment exports earned has surpassed US$ 10billion mark in the first nine months of fiscal year 2014-15 that began on July 1, 2014. According to the data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, it has earned US$ 10.207 billion from textile exports. However, the value of textile and apparel exports during the nine-month period was 1.57 per cent lower compared to exports of $9.136 billion in the corresponding period of previous fiscal.

Related Keywords: block printing, cotton fabric, expo organized, hand printing, Kalamkari art form, Kolkata, Machilipatnam style, natural colour, painting on textile, Srikalahasti style, Tapis Moghol, textile gallery of the Indian Museum, vegetable dye

Kalamkari or Qalamkari is an art form of hand printing or block printing normally done on cotton fabrics using only vegetable dyes or natural colours. Kalamkari paintings on textiles is said to have originated and flourished in India, possible in Tanjore, in the late 16th or early 17th century under the patronage of the Mughal emperors. But, with the passage of time the ancient art form Kalamkari has faded into stupor.

Related Keywords: cash register, cotton fabric, Fabindia, Fashion designer, hand crafted clothing, hand woven, icon of swadeshi, Khadi, khadi collection, khadi export, khadi footwear, rocking ramp, sari, trendy

Fashion designers are rocking the ramp with khadi collections made from hand-woven cotton fabric. Khadi, one time was an integral part and icon of the Swadeshi movement is now trendy and has set the cash registers ringing as it catches popularity in the fashion world.

Related Keywords: cotton fabric, Daewoo International corporation, Daewoo Textile Bukhara, Daewoo Textile Fergana, production capacity, yarn

Daewoo International Corporation, a South Korean company has part of its expansion plan has decided to make an investment to the tune of $22 million to expand production capacities of two textile enterprises Daewoo Textile Fergana and Daewoo Textile Bukhara in Uzbekistan.

The relevant Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Uzbekengilsanoat State Joint Stock Company and Daewoo International Corporation on expansion and modernization of production capacities of the Daewoo Textile Fergana and Daewoo Textile Bukhara.

Related Keywords: cotton fabric, cotton grower, Kannan Lakshminarayan, microspin machine, raw product, spinning, technology solution, Vidarbha farmer, weaving activity

Kannan Lakshminarayan a Chennai-based entrepreneur has developed a new technology solution, Microspine machine for cotton growers to carry out spinning and weaving activities at small units near cotton farms. After seen the low returns cotton grower get on the sale of the raw product.

The microspin machine will help them move upward the value chain in the vast business of producing garments, farmers can secure better returns and generate more productive employment at the farm a new solution has been developed.