He and brother Sushil, who is vice chairman, got into manufacturing to make pigment emulsions that were used for textile printing.

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Snipers got custom-made suits, such as the sinister, mummer-like British coats on display here, but mass-produced infantry camouflage had to wait until advances in textile printing.

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Their family textile-dyeing-and-printing trade, handed down for generations, uses natural vegetable dyes and wooden hand blocks for printing.

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