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, ...

But it wasn’t an engraving. It was a sheet of finely woven silk – a thousand threads to the inch – so subtle and detailed ...

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 ...