Strengthening the cultural fabricCasey Weekly BerwickIf Caroline Poiner is right, the artisans of India - the weavers, screen printers and textile craftspeople - are an endangered species, threatened by an increasingly Westernised India turning its bac...
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ITMF's International Textile Machinery Shipment Statistics Vol. 34 / 2011Textile World MagazineZURICH, Switzerland — May 2012 — After a sharp reduction in global shipments of new textile machinery in 2008 and 2009 as a result of the global fina...
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Jakarta GlobeFashion, Food in Kelapa Gading This MayJakarta GlobeStarting on Saturday, Sentra Kelapa Gading in North Jakarta will host the ninth annual Jakarta Fashion and Food Festival, presenting a series of fashion shows by top designers, an Indones...
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Fibre2fashion.comSGS Indonesia extends deal with textile testing firm BOKENFibre2fashion.comThe textiles and garment industry in Indonesia is currently experiencing a period of rapid growth as it becomes an active hub for the sourcing of textile produc...
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Batik Fractal brings traditional Batik into the high-tech scenee27Hoping to bring an Indonesia heritage to the next level, Nancy Margried, Yun Hariadi and Muhamad Lukman developed the jBatik software for their product Batik Fractal. Batik Fractal is a ...
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Jakarta GlobeNike Raises Factory Labor and Sustainability StandardsJakarta GlobeWorkers pack shoes at a Nike factory in Tangerang in West Java province, Indonesia in 2007. (Bloomberg Photo) Nike, the world's largest sporting-goods maker, is putting...
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