National Textile MuseumTo know the living art of Bhutanese weaving it is worth visiting the National Textile Museum located at the heart of the city on Norzin Lam. The museum showcases major weaving techniques, the local dresses and textile made by men and women. Live exhibition of weaving technique of Bhutanese textile is showcased in this muse...

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GLOBALIZATIONIndian industry is bracing for the next wave of outsourcing from the U.S. For a change, this has nothing to do with business processing, information technology or call centers. It’s actually an entirely different sector — manufacturing textiles and garments. And as it happens this shift will be at the cost of jobs, mainly in the U.S. and European Union. There are also fears here that outsourcing textiles is the next political hot potato that might hit the U.S. in an election year, resulting in non-tariff barriers.Textiles and garments have been one of one of India’s biggest export items, raking in $14 billion last year (compared...

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TextilesSpools of Mayan textiles. Lady the Tramp and I were in a debate as to if this fabric was hand made or machine processed. After finding this shop, I think we found the answer. Yes, even in the hinterlands of Guatemala, the machine replaces the hand. It is just interesting to me that these machine manufactured textiles are sold to foreigners for hand made prices.Machine manufactured Mayan textiles in Panajachel, Guatema...

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Exhibition of Textiles from Southeast A...

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JCAMD host major international textiles eventFrom 13 to 21 September, over 200 delegates from 74 institutions in 14 different countries attended the fourteenth bi-annual international conference on Digital Craft, which was hosted by the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design (JCAMD) in collaboration with the European Textile Network (ETN).The conference programme was accompanied by a series of one, two and four-day workshops on the latest innovations in print, embroidery, weaving and laser cutting. Participants included representatives form Central St Martins College of Art, The Royal College of Art and other well-known London, national...

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