Silk route
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- Nine Yards to Turn Around. Balasubramanyam, K. R. // Business Today;4/20/2008, Vol. 17 Issue 8, p47
The article offers information on Karnataka Silk Industries Corp.'s (KSIC) success in the textile industry in India. KSIC, a maker of Mysore Silk sarees, produced 80,000 sarees in 2007 and almost all the stock was sold. KSIC predicts that it will end 2008 with a profit in excess of Rs. 3 crore....
- Home theatre. Lewis, Clare; Jones, Becky // Selvedge;Mar/Apr2013, Issue 51, p50
The article provides an overview of American Dennis Severs' restored house at 18 Folgate Street in London, England which he bought from the Spitalfields Trust in 1979. A brief history of the historic houses and streets of Spitalfields occupied by the French Huguenots in the 18th century is...
- From fibre to fabric. // Complete Guide to Silk Painting;1992, p25
The article offers information on various types of silk which produced silk fabrics. Silk includes spool silk, spun silk, noil silk, organzine silk, tram silk, and grenadine silk. It discusses the quality, properties, and characteristics of silk fabric. It describes various types of silk fabrics...
- GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS TO TRADITIONAL SILKS OF INDIA. SAVITHRI, G.; SUJATHAMMA, P. // Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences & Humanities;Jan2013, Vol. 3 Issue 1, p220
The concept of globalization that flounced the globe in recent years, thrown open new avenues of marketing and turned our planet into a small village on one hand, posed several challenges, on the other. Among them, intellectual piracy is prominent one. One may recall the long, long struggle...
- Powerloom industry seeks sops to sustain growth. // Colourage;Nov2007, Vol. 54 Issue 11, p129
The article reports on the call of the Federation of Indian Art Silk Weaving Industry (FIASWI) for the decentralisation of the production of powerloom industry to maintain the growth of man-made fibre industry. FIASWI proposes to reduce the customs duty on polyester filament yarn (PFY) to 4...
- Bhagalpur silk losing out to Chinese look-alikes. // Man-Made Textiles in India;Oct2009, Vol. 52 Issue 10, p365
The article looks at the condition of the silk weaving industry in Bhagalpur, India as of 2009. In 2008, the banana-smooth tusser business has grossed almost 60 crore rupees compared with 300 crore rupees in the previous year. There was a significant decline in the number of full-time weavers in...
- Silk Scarves With a Story. // Stitches Magazine;Feb2010, Vol. 24 Issue 2, p23
The article features the silk weavers and the silk weaving trade in Laos. It notes that Laotian silk is handmade from cultivated silkworms which are 100% handily woven. A web site company called Orijyn has featured hand crafted and woven silk products in its web site such as scarves and silk...
- RmKV to patent new saree weaving technique. // Colourage;Sep2006, Vol. 53 Issue 9, p111
The article reports on the patent application for KV Weaving Technique by silk saree retailers RmKV in India. The company had also introduced a reversible bridal silk saree in the market that has four pallus, four matching borders and two bodies woven into one silk saree. The products are...
- Weavers seek abolishment of customs duty. // Colourage;Dec2006, Vol. 53 Issue 12, p145
The article reports that the Federation of Indian Art Silk Weaving Industry (FIASWI) has presented a memorandum to the government to fix the problems in the industry. The federation wants the government to waive off the 10 percent customs duty on the man-made filament yarns. It also wants a...
