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How Ignored Weavers And Used Tyres Came Together To Create A Unique Line Of...
Anu Tandon reaches out to some of the amazing weavers and brings out the best of products made from waste material. From chairs and tables to frames and display articles, these pieces of art are...
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Famed Weavers of Chanderi Get Solar Lamps to Help Them Work in Better Light
The famous weavers of Chanderi won’t have to strain their eyes at night any more – the state has provided them with solar home lights that will help them in their weaving work on a daily basis....
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What India’s Most Prominent Designers Are Doing to Revive Traditional Weaves
Prominent designers like Ritu Kumar, Tarun Tahiliani, Anita Dongre and many more are going back to the roots to bring traditional weavers in the limelight and revive the beautiful, ancient weaving...
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TBI Blogs: From Design to Sales – How Digitisation Is Empowering the Chanderi...
Chanderiyaan, a project in Madhya Pradesh, is digitally empowering the weaver community of Chanderi in an effort to streamline the weaving process and provide sustainable livelihood options for the...
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Buy and ‘Plant’ This Special Rakhi To Help Save a Farmer from Poverty
This Rakshabandhan get to know what goes into making the thread that binds – the farmers, weavers and spinners behind the scenes. You can also grow a small plant from the seed encased in this very...
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Meet the Entrepreneur Who Is Empowering Assam’s Lesser Known Dimasa Cachari...
Vivid colours and intricate patterns define the textiles of NC Hills’ Dimasa Cachari tribe. ROOHI, a new label based in Haflong, showcases these traditional weaves in a contemporary avatar. Among the...
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Govt Subsidy for Padma Shri Mallesham’s Innovative Asu Lakshmi Machine Will...
The government has announced that it will be subsiding the Laxmi Asu machines invented by Padma Shri Award winner Chintakindi Mallesham, so weavers can flourish with their craft without worrying about...
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Chennai Weavers Make Eco-Friendly, Banana Fibre ‘Jeans’ to Help You Beat the...
Not that long ago, Anakaputhur, a quiet little suburb in Chennai, was famous across the world for exclusively being a “weavers’ village.” In the decades since, the production has come down. But the...
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This Village of Weavers in Bihar Is Spinning Clothes and IIT Dreams!
Living the IIT dream may seem distant to a lot of aspiring engineers, but this village of weavers on the periphery of Bihar’s Gaya town has borne witness to its 15 teens making their way to IITs across...
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Here’s How Dreams and Hopes Are Woven into Your Handloom Sarees
Many of us might have owned handloom sarees or seen them pass down from one generation to another. Yet, how often do we stop to think about each meticulously created detail that manifests itself in...
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How This Desi Chatbot Could Help Handloom Weavers in India!
You may be familiar with Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based chatbot ‘Ruuh’ that made rounds on social media with leading stand up comedians like Mallika Dua and José Covaco promoting it....
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Management Grad Gives Up High-Paying Job To Help Poor Weavers of Thar Desert!
After graduating from prominent business schools and management institutes, most graduates look abroad or in the corporate sector for lucrative job opportunities—which seems to be the dream of most...
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India Has 95% of World’s Handwoven Fabric: How We Can Save This Heritage!
It was 7th August 1905, when leaders of the freedom movement like Aurobindo Ghosh, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai and several others started a Swadeshi Movement asking Indians...
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Kerala Floods: This Duo’s Cloth Dolls Are Rescuing an Entire Community!
Chendamangalam, a small town in the Ernakulam district of Kerala, is famous for its centuries-old handloom textiles industry, particularly the sarees it manufactures. Unfortunately, last month when...
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Saris From Bananas: TN Weaver Creates 25 Natural Fibers, Wins National Record!
When everything is going the organic way why should the six to nine-yard saris be left behind? I have often heard of the versatility of the banana plant whose each part can be put to use. And proving...
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Life Insurance For 2000+ Fisherfolk: Show Your Gratitude To Kerala’s Flood...
The 2018 deluge and the devastation it left in its wake took a lot away from the people of Kerala. With more than 400 deaths, 140 missing and lakhs displaced, it wreaked havoc all across the state....
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Mom-Daughter Duo Reimagine Kerala’s ‘Thorthu Towel’, Empower 500 Weavers!
Some of India’s contributions to the fashion scenes remain evergreen, like the ever evolving Madras checks. Our country’s fashion trends take root in its history, culture and traditions. Where lehenga...
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More Than a Towel: How Assam’s ‘Gamosa’ Made It to The Guinness World Records!
One of the most recognisable cultural symbols of Assam, the gamosa, also known as the gamusa or gamucha, is white rectangular piece of cloth, around 4 feet in height and 2 feet in width, has beautiful...
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How Many Can Reeds Lift? This Enterprise is Using Them to Uplift 275 Manipuris!
Age-old traditions, handicraft prowess, and artistic acumen come with the weight of generations that have passed before and the perfection time has wrought in them. Each skill is precious, as no one...
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Attention, Women Entrepreneurs: Meet 5 Homemakers Using WhatsApp To Make Profits
Ease of use, ability to share media links, product photos and videos and a secure system for one-to-one and one-to-many messaging services – Whatsapp has become an important tool for budding...
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Synthetics Hurt Her Baby, So Mom Now Makes All-Natural Clothes With Bamboo, Hemp
Having kids is a big responsibility and a life-changing event. They challenge us, bring joy and even inspire us in their own magical way. For Bengaluru-based designer mum Navdeep Kaur, the birth of her...
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Meet 10 Successful ‘Mompreneurs’ Earning Lakhs While Raising Kids
Google ‘mompreneur’ and the results are astounding — from articles on successful mompreneurs to others teaching you how to excel at it. Everyday we hear about women who take on the heaviest possible...
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Mizoram Mom Starts handwoven ‘Puan’ Business From Home, supports 63 weavers
As a country that accommodates so much diversity, there is so much we can learn from different cultures. And, the clothes that one wears is a reflection of the tradition of that particular region....
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6 Women Help Award-Winning Weavers Across India earn Rs 60 lakh in 2 Months
Majid Ahmad Mir, a 39-year-old master weaver from Srinagar comes from a lineage of master pashmina weavers dating back almost 600 years. (Image above of Majid Ahmad Mir on the left and a Pochampally...
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With Just Rs 5000, This Man Helped Lakhs of Women With a Unique Carpet Business
This article has been sponsored by Jaipur Rugs. Kamli, a resident of Dhanota village in Rajasthan’s Shahpura tehsil, was in a deep predicament. It had been three years since her husband Tejpal had...
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Woman Takes 4000-YO Indian Fabric to US, Germany & Beyond, Helps Weavers Earn...
Janhavi Kulkarni was in Class four when she started exploring the world of stitching, like every other kid in her region of Dharwad. More than being an unwritten rule it was the tradition of weaving...
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Mom Designs, Daughters Model: How We Built a Rs 15 Cr Fashion Brand Using...
“Would you believe me if I said that all through my growing up years my mother designed most of my outfits? I never had to buy anything readymade from a store,” says Lekhinee Desai, co-founder of The...
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Carrying Dad’s Legacy, How I Created 2,200 Handloom Designs for Weavers to...
When Anshul Malhotra would watch her father work rigorously with weavers from nearby villages in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh as a child, her heart would fill with the urge to do the same. Her father, Om...
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