Related Keywords: district Swat, funding assistance of Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, God-gifted talent of the people of Islampur, Livelihood Programme Hindukush, other fabrics, revive traditional textile cluster of Islampur, Weaving woolen shawls
Weaving woolen shawls and other fabrics is a God-gifted talent of the people of Islampur, a village in district Swat. During the 1990s, the weaving sector was said to be at its peak with around 90% of the population related with it in one way or another. When militancy hit the area in in 2007 business of hand looming reduced.
Livelihood Programme Hindukush (LPH) of the Inter-Cooperation (IC) with the funding assistance of Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is working on the revival of the traditional textile cluster of Islampur, district Swat.
