Take the experience of one midsized textile manufacturer, representative of many sodden local businesses.
The textile industry, for example, employed in 2008 an estimated 34 million people in the country.
Exhibitions include sculpture, wood carving, painting, drawing, photography, wearable art, textile art, mixed media and ceramics.
Think of textile manufacturing in the South and you may picture cotton mills in North Carolina.
Ms. Barnes now leads me to a large, red textile from the tip of Sumatra.
Thermopod offers a solution in the form of biodegradable, temperature-controlled packaging made of recycled textile fibers.
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While China certainly has a strong textile and apparel industry, that strength is often wildly exaggerated.
The model he's devised for his textile business takes a page from the technology sector.
Meanwhile, Dalmia has brought down Purohit from the call-center business to run GHCLs textile business.
Li women design the textile patterns using only their imagination and knowledge of traditional styles.
The end of quotas on U.S. textile imports almost two years ago helped speed that process.
They brought their wives in the 1970s, just as the city's textile industry collapsed.
Bradford's Pakistanis began to arrive in the late 1950s to work in the textile industry.
He remembers a few years ago when a bunch of textile factories closed all at once.
She's 57 and spent most of her life in one of those textile mills.
Other famous artist-residents include Park Yuna, in whose studio visitors find pottery and textile art.
The educational resource is for use by fashion and textile students, designers and researchers.
He opened a small textile store that used to supply goods to the erstwhile rulers.
But textile workers at a venerable Egyptian spinning mill recently did something that was considered unthinkable.
Confronted in 1994 with escalating power costs, Tulsi Tanti's young textile business was in dire straits.
Most goods brought into the U.S. from China are low-end consumer goods, such as textile products.
What little experience there was in big factories typically came from textile or wood-processing.
His grandfather Bhuramal Chaudhary, a textile trader from Rajasthan, migrated to Nepal in the 19th century.
But the company looked to its vast textile archive and relaunched patterns that have contemporary appeal.
He owned large textile factories which listed companies such as Adidas among their clients.
The company develops and markets sanitation chemicals, dish and textile washing systems, and infection control products.
The Prato industrial zone now accounts for more than 30% of Italy's textile imports from China.
To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms.
The country cannot depend on the success of its textile and furniture entrepreneurs alone.
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Moreover, the global marketplace has displaced once steady jobs like seamstresses and textile workers.
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