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  2. Chirom Indira - Wikipedia

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    On International Women's Day Devi was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar [4] for her work with handloom weaving. [3] The award was made by the President of India Ram Nath Kovind at the Presidential Palace ( Rastrapati Bhavan ) in New Delhi with the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi and the Minister for Women & Child Development, Maneka ...

  3. Dosuti - Wikipedia

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    Dosuti was a cloth made by running two yarns in warp and weft as its name refers to Do(double) Suti (cotton yarns). India's Eastern side was famous for more delicate cotton materials such as Dacca muslins, and Punjab and Gujarat were famous for coarser cotton textile piece goods. Dosuti was a thick cotton material used for rough usages, such as ...

  4. Department of Handlooms, Handicrafts, Textiles and Khadi

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    Textiles. The state is one of the largest producer of textile yarns and finished garments, accounting for more than 70% of the national output. The department is responsible for the management of entire textile supply chain including facilitating resources including materials, land and labour, textile machinery, education and research and promotion. [13]

  5. Madras (cloth) - Wikipedia

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    Madras is a lightweight cotton fabric with typically patterned texture and tartan design, used primarily for summer clothing such as pants, shorts, lungi, dresses, and jackets. The fabric takes its name from the former name of the city of Chennai in south India .

  6. Clothing in India - Wikipedia

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    The cotton industry in ancient India was well developed, and several of the methods survive until today. Herodotus, an ancient Greek historian described Indian cotton as "a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep". [3] Indian cotton clothing was well adapted to the dry, hot summers of the subcontinent.

  7. History of clothing in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    The Mughal dynasty included luxury clothes that complemented interest in art and poetry. Both men and women were fond of jewellery. Clothing fibers generally included muslins of three types: Ab-e-Rawan (running water), Baft Hawa (woven air) and Shabnam (evening dew) and the other fibers were silks, velvets and brocades.

  8. Madurai Sungudi - Wikipedia

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    Cotton fabric with tie and dye method of traditional prints Madurai Sungudi is a design from Madurai , in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu , which is an exclusive textile product traditionally produced using tie and dye (using natural dyes ) method by the Saurashtrians , who migrated to Madurai under the patronage of King Thirumalai Naicker in ...

  9. Chendamangalam saree - Wikipedia

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    The handloom tradition flourished into sarees and other fabrics under the nobles of Cochin. The weaving waned by early 20th century as a result of diminishing of patronage. However, through Chendamangalam Handloom Co-operative Society formed in 1954 and The Kerala Co-operative Society Act of 1969 the handloom witnessed revival. [3]