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Schoeller’s Sensil Heat fabric attained Selection status in the Outer Layer category. Meet Negev Adventure finalists - Visitors are invited to come hear the story of the Donna Moderna Negev Desert Adventure sponsored by Nilit. Hundreds of women participated in training programmes throughout Italy that culminated in five finalists selected to participate in a three-day, 80K run through Israel’s beautiful but extreme Negev Desert wearing special performance apparel made by BV Sport of Sensil Innergy fabric.

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Now The Wolfsonian—FIU is expanding its global scope with Made in Italy: MITA Textile Design 1926–1976, its first-ever major collaborative exhibition with its kindred museum. It was also organized in cooperation with the Consulate General of Italy in Miami.

Silvia Barisione from The Wolfsonian and Matteo Fochessati and Gianni Franzone from The Wolfsoniana curated the exhibition, which borrowed many of its items from the Italian museum’s collection.

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Devi Art Foundation presents Fracture - Indian textiles, New conversations is the gallery’s first show of the new year, and it presents a range of designers expressing themselves through textiles, drawing from the rich handloom tradition that makes up the warp and weft of India's history.
FRACTURES attempt to showcase India's rainbow diversity of handcrafted textiles. In an age when much of textile design has become mechanized, it will look to prove that weaves done by hand have a personality, an intimacy and a soul that machines will never be able to replicate.

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Zambian handloom weaver received training at the Indian Institute of Handloom Technology (IIHT) in Salem on textile design, block printing, use of sophisticated handlooms and quality management. During the training period of two month they also visited several handloom cluster sites in Tamil Nadu. The programme, which was facilitated by the International Trade Centre (ITC), was backed by the Indian government's Ministry of Textiles as well as the IIHT.

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The Devi Art Foundation’s upcoming exhibition 'FRACTURES’: Indian Textiles, New Conversations will be an attempt to showcase India’s rainbow diversity of handcrafted textiles. In an age when much of textile design has become mechanized, it will look to prove that weaves done by hand have a personality, an intimacy and a soul that machines will never be able to replicate.

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After several calls on government to tackle the widespread pirating of Ghanaian textile designs, Ghana is likely to work closely with the Chinese government as part of a new strategy to combat the importation of pirated Ghanaian textiles from China at the bilateral level.
 

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Craft research is included as part of the textile design syllabus. The third-year students of textile design from National Institute of Fashion Technology, Gandhinagar (Nift), as a part of their education, have travelled to various parts of Gujarat to research on the age-old crafts of the state, like Ashavali weave, zari, zardozi and tie and dye.