silk export business

BANGALORE: Himatsingka Seide, one of India's largest producers and exporters of silk fabrics and yarn, is planning to get into manufacture of non-silk fabrics and high-end bed linen.

Ahimsa silk, the fabric made without killing silkworms, is increasingly gaining popularity in foreign countries though it is yet to catch on in its land of origin.

Indian carpet exporters are witnessing a revival after a significant slowdown caused by hefty US tariffs. Buyers are re-engaging, checking inventories, and expressing excitement for upcoming industry shows. This renewed activity offers hope for regaining lost market share from neighboring countries and Turkiye.

BHAGALPUR: Silk has always been associated with this erstwhile state of Champapuri. But now, criminals' are posing a serious threat to the silk industry here.

Indian silk industry with an annual business of over Rs 10,000 crore has been hit hard by the last month's earthquake in China, a major supplier of raw silk for the manufacturing units in the country.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has appealed to people to gift a locally produced goods under ODOP from their city to their families and friends during this Diwali. This, he underlined, would help local traders and contribute in the country’s progress. Varanasi’s silk traders hope this will help them recover their businesses during the festival season.

The state government has prepared a blueprint for creating export hub in every district with the aim to export district-specific products to 75 countries, state industries minister Shahnawaz Hussain said on Tuesday.

Silk dhoti producers in the district have stopped production after prices of yarn skyrocketed in the market. They have decided to start production only after yarn prices come down.Silk dhotis are largely weaved across Salem, Namakkal, Coimbatore, Erode and Tirupur districts in the state.

Silk, the delicate and lustrous fibre used for making saris and dress material, has now been used to fashion a tough and strong material for trousers, resembling the popular jeans.

Handicraft and silk products from the state got an overwhelming response from the visitors at the stalls in the Jharkhand pavilion at India International Trade Fair (IITF) in New Delhi.

In a major operation, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) Ludhiana arrested a prominent carpet businessman of Srinagar.

Textile traders in the city having business in Sri Lanka are closely monitoring the situation in the neighbouring island nation where socio-economic conditions have turned volatile due to public unrest.

Handicrafts and organic silk produced in the state have managed to attract the business community and officials of Germany.

The Ahmedabad zonal unit of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has made one more arrest in the multi-crore duty evasion scam in import and export of mulberry silk. Tabib Ali Sayed was arrested from Mumbai on Thursday night and was produced before the additional chief metropolitan magistrate in Ahmedabad. He has been sent to judicial custody.

Though city artisan has grabbed attention for designing 'death badge' for Oslo killer, badge and insignia making is an established trade here

The next time you shop abroad, don't be surprised if you come across a label of the Jharkhand Silk Textile and Handicraft Development Corporation Limited (Jharcraft).

The initiative of Eastern UP Exporters' Association (EUPEA) to hold 'Hindtex 2011', a buyer-seller meet at an exhibition of handicrafts and textile products, is yielding positive results.

Silk, pearls, shoes and bone china - some of the most luxurious choices we make are cruelest to animals.

NEW DELHI: Tax returns of thousands of exporters for the past several years, which had been already assessed, are being reopened by the I-T department.

A cluster of families in Sonamukhi — a Bengal town some 3,000km from Kabul — are watching the events unfolding in Afghanistan with more than the normal degree of interest. For more than half a century, these families in Bankura district have had a thriving trade relation with Afghanistan, supplying high-quality silk turbans, or saafa, to Kabuliwallahs. With trade between India and Afghanistan coming to a sudden halt following the Taliban takeover of the country, the turban weavers and sellers are staring at a loss in business and some have already started shifting to stocking and weaving the indigenous but intricate Baluchari saris.