SURAT: After selling one lakh conventional powerlooms in scrap due to adverse impact of Goods and Services Tax (GST) and demonetization in the country's largest man-made fabric (MMF) hub of Surat, ...

The fate of around 50,000 workers employed in more than 1,200 jacquard weaving units in the city hangs in balance as weavers are planning to cut the production by operating the units for just six ...

Technology and textiles have always been joined at the hip, from the invention of the loom around 5000 BC to IBM’s first computers, said to be inspired by a French “jacquard” weaving machine. A new ...

Research areas: Jacquard weaving, machine embroidery and laying, digital textiles, soft circuitry, weaving, natural dyeing, dyeing with bacteria, and collaborations with different artists. Geneviève ...