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The Ideas retail outlet at the Atrium Mall on Zaibunnisa Street in Saddar, Karachi In 2003, Gul Ahmed expanded to the retail sector and founded Ideas by Gul Ahmed retail chain. [ 6 ] It offers a range of home textiles and furnishings for the bedroom , kitchen and bathroom , as well as men's and women's apparel.
The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) is an association for Textile industry in Pakistan.APTMA represents over 400 textile mills in Pakistan. [2]The textile industry is Pakistan's largest industry and textile is the most important export of Pakistan. [3]
A blue khadi kurta.. Khadi (pronounced, Khādī), derived from khaddar, [1] [2] [3] is a hand-spun and woven natural fibre cloth promoted by Mahatma Gandhi as swadeshi (self-sufficiency) for the freedom struggle of the Indian subcontinent, and the term is used throughout India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Heimtextil in Frankfurt am Main, Germany is an international trade fair for home and contract textiles with more than 2,700 exhibitors and roughly 67,000 trade visitors. [1] Throughout the four days of the event in mid-January, the trade fair serves as a business and information platform for manufacturers, retailers and designers from around ...
The Textile Museum was established in 1925 by George Hewitt Myers, a rug and textile collector and connoisseur — and was formerly housed in the building his family called home. At the time of its founding, the museum's collection included 275 rugs and sixty related textiles, a collection Myers had built since the 1890s.
Printed textile design: William Morris, Strawberry Thief, 1883 [6] Printed textile designs are created by using various printing techniques on fabric, cloth, and other materials. Printed textile designers are mainly involved in designing patterns for home interior products like carpets, wallpapers, and ceramics.
A hierarchy of skills resulted, with the most prestigious level reserved for those who cut the cloth. "Mere sewers" ranked below the "cutters". More respect was given to those who worked in a master's workshop than those who took in piecework in their own home.
Gul were historically described in the West as being elephant's foot motifs. Other Western guesses held that the gul was a drawing of a round Turkmen tent, with lines between tents representing irrigation canals; or that the emblem was a totemic bird. None of these descriptions have any basis in weaving tradition or culture. [2]