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Museum De Lakenhal is the visual arts, history and crafts museum of the city of Leiden. The museum is housed in the former Leiden Cloth Hall, a building that dates back to 1640. The collection includes highlights by old masters such as Lucas van Leyden, Rembrandt van Rijn and Jan Steen, alongside works by modern and contemporary artists such as Theo van Doesburg, Charley Toorop and Erwin Olaf. Leiden's illustrious past is covered in collection presentations such as The Siege and Relief of Leiden (1574) and Seven Centuries of Leiden Cloth.
The production of woollen cloth has determined the identity and position of the city of Leiden for seven centuries. The textile industry made Leiden the largest city in Holland in the 15th century and the most important textile centre in the world in the 17th century. Thousands of textile workers from the Southern Netherlands, England, Germany and France, who fled their countries for political or religious reasons, found work here. The strong, woollen fabric is very popular all over the world and the cloth weights, with which the fabric is given its hallmark, can be found all over the world.
In order to guarantee quality, the city council set up seven hallmarking facilities for cloth, saai, baai, grein, ras, warp and fustein. The most important, the Laecken-Halle, opened in 1641. This building is now part of the building sections that house Museum De Lakenhal. The façade of the old cloth hall is full of references to the textile industry: five tables depict the production process in nine stages, and there are sheep on the roof.
The Woolmark Company is a not-for-profit enterprise that conducts research, development and marketing along the worldwide supply chain for Australian wool on behalf of about 60,000 woolgrowers that help fund the company. Woolmark the world’s most recognised textile fibre brand - the Woolmark logo has been applied to more than 5 billion products since 1964.
The Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection (CF+TC) includes more than 10,000 items of apparel, accessories, and flat textiles dating from the eighteenth century to present, including substantial collections of functional clothing, technical textiles, and ethnographic costume. The collection is used for exhibition, research, and teaching. A gallery displaying selections from the CF+TC is located on the Terrace Level of the Human Ecology Building, and is free and open to the public during normal weekday business hours when the University is in session.
The Journal of Natural Fibers presents new achievements in basic research and the development of multi-purpose applications that further the economical and ecological production of hard fibers, protein fibers, seed, bast, leaf, and cellulosic fibers. An international panel of academics, researchers, and practitioners examines new processing methods and techniques, new trends and economic aspects of processing natural raw materials, sustainable agriculture and eco-friendly techniques that address environmental concerns, the efficient assessment of the life cycle of natural fibers-based products, and the natural reclamation of polluted land.
The Design Library’s business is the sale and licensing of antique, vintage, modern and contemporary textile designs for inspiration to the fashion, home furnishings, textile, wall covering, graphic arts, and paper product industries.
The Design Library has the world’s largest collections of documentary fabrics, original paintings, wallpapers, embroideries and yarn dyes, numbering over seven million designs. The collections date from the 1750s to the present and are sorted into over 1200 categories for easy access.
There exists an infinity of ways to design a piece of paper or fabric. Across three hundred years of highly skilled creative work a marvelous assortment of designs has emerged. Pattern is everywhere and has always been a powerful means of individual and cultural expression.
Located directly on the little river Anger and embedded in an old English landscape park is one of the oldest preserved industrial complexes in Germany: the cotton spinning mill Cromford in Ratingen. Established in 1783/84 by the merchant and entrepreneur Johann Gottfried Brügelmann from Wuppertal, it is now regarded as the first fully mechanised cotton spinning mill on the continent of Europe. The early industrial complex dating from the late 18th century is almost completely preserved. The five-storey "Hohe Fabrik" (High Mill) and the late baroque Cromford mansion – today both buildings belonging to the LVR-Industriemuseum - the "Alte Fabrik" (Old Mill), the plain living quarters of the workers, the office and the wheelhouse which once housed the waterwheel.
Museum de Kantfabriek shows how textile industry was once the basis for the economic prosperity of the North Limburg region. Sheep were kept on the poor soil in order to fertilise it. The wool was spun and woven into cloth in winter. Later, the farmers also grew flax, which they processed themselves into linen. The number of home weaving mills was large. This created an area of expertise for textile crafts and the textile industry, traces of which can still be found today.
Until 2006, the almost antique bobbin lace machines of the Zuid Nederlandse Kantfabriek were still in daily use to produce lace from thousands of tiny threads. Some of these machines have been preserved and you can see them in action in the museum. You can smell the lubricating oil and hear and feel the thumping of the machines. The lace is formed before your eyes by the interplay of machine, bobbins and needles at a rapid pace and with an ingenious logic.
Wherever the textile industry developed, magnificent examples of textile art emerged. Museum de Kantfabriek has an extraordinary collection of old and modern objects, which you can see in permanent and temporary exhibitions. You can see, hear, read and do it yourself.
Fashion for Good is a platform for sustainable innovation to connect those working on sustainable innovation with brands, retailers, manufacturers and funders to bring new ideas and technologies from niche to norm.
The Fashion for Good Museum is an interactive fashion museum for the future of fashion. The museum tells the stories behind the clothes you wear and how your choices can have a positive impact on people and our planet.
Fashion for Good also publishes open-source circular apparel tools, guides and reports.
Markets need trustworthy and accessible information in order to grow. Since 2007, Ecolabel Index has been the provider of that information for the ecolabel market. Ecolabel Index collects and structures data on ecolabels globally, increasing transparency and helping buyers and sellers use them more effectively. Ecolabel Index is operated by Big Room, a corporation based in Vancouver, Canada.
DTB is a knowledge network consisting of member companies that cover the entire textile chain, education facilities, institutes and relevant committees. DTB´s regular events and seminars offer a national and international platform for an open dialogue between experts in order to mutually generate future-oriented solution processes for the textile industry. Accordingly DTB´s competences include, amongst other, the fields of sustainability, sourcing, multi-channel and quality management.
IVGT is a textile association representing the interests of approximately 170 member companies from the sectors of textile raw materials, finishing, yarns and fabrics as well as Technical Textiles. Consequently, IVGT represents more than 60% of the German textile industry. As an industrial association IVGT contributes with its work in a significant way to maintain and strenghten the general framework for textile production. The association supports the professionnal, economic and political concerns of its member companies towards national, European and international institutions.
The Go Textile! campaign shows the diversity of textiles. We encounter textiles and textile composites everywhere in our daily lives. Even in places where you wouldn´t immediately expect to find them. They are used in medicine to ward off viruses and germs, they filter industrial wastewater or turn exhaust fumes into clean air again. From housing and construction to flying, textile composites are the material of the future. In the case of clothing, it´s all about sustainable solutions and a smart circular economy. The career prospects are correspondingly diverse. Go Textile! presents the exciting, versatile textile industry and shows how many opportunities it opens up for exciting, future-proof training.
This collection comprises carpets (mainly Irish-made), tapestries, curtains, embroideries, sampler quilts, fabric fragments and lengths, equipment, pattern designs, and sample books relating to mainly Irish textile production.
The Irish silk and poplin industries of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries are represented as well as Irish sprigging or whitework, and Mountmellick embroidery.
The "International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology" is a specialized journal for all aspects of research regarding clothing science, aimed at all those involved with clothing; whether in fabric, design, production, machinery, management or retailing. Textiles are materials of great complexity and diversity, so their understanding is of paramount importance, and their design, manufacture and end use are expanding to many fields such as Fashion, Interior, Architecture, Medical, Aerospace, Automotive, Civil-engineering and Geotextiles, Well-being, Food, Agriculture and Electronics. In fact, many new textile products are not known as such because of their diverse technology, such as scaffolds for cell growth for example, or membranes with tribological energy harvesting ability, or photonics based on fibre morphology, to name but a few. It is essential therefore that researchers and industry keep pace with these fast-developing sectors by reading and publishing.
The Bunka Gakuen Digital Archive is a specialized archive for fashion and clothing as well as being a learning, education and research support organization for students and faculty belonging to Bunka Gakuen University Library.
The archive can also be utilized by off-campus users if they are students or researcher in the same field.
The Library holds approximately 340,000 books, 3,000 magazine titles, including back numbers, as well as a substantial number of both domestic and foreign fashion magazines. Parts of it are digitized in the Digital Archive and can be accessed according to the criteria of accessories, fashion plates; art deco illustrated books; magazines and Japanese old books.
The General association for textiles and fashion (Gesamtverband textil+mode) is the trade association of the German textile and fashion industry.
The umbrella organization informs its 25 member associations and 1400 (mostly medium-sized) companies, about the entire diversity of the industry, provides expert knowledge, experienced discussion partners, current positions and facts as well as further information.
The annual publications deal with current textile-related topics in connection with architecture, clothing, education, corporate social responsibility (CSR), digital transformation, health, climate, and energy as well as lightweight construction, fashion, smart textiles, environment, living, and many others. The publications are freely accessible.
Pratt Institute is a private university located in Brooklyn, Clinton Hill borough, and Manhattan in New York City, New York State. Another campus is located in Utica, New York. The institute's beginnings date back to 1887.
Today, Pratt consists of six so-called “schools” with degree programmes in the fields of art, architecture, design, creative writing and visual studies, among others. The Pratt Institute is one of the leading art schools worldwide.
It is named after its founder and first president Charles Pratt, a US oil industrialist. The Institute has its own radio station and one of the oldest public libraries in the USA.
The School of Design is home to the Fashion Design programme (BFA).
The four-year fashion design programme encourages the development of individual identity in a collaborative environment characterized by self-reflection and engaged critique.
The department offers international exchange programmes and intensive courses abroad.
The Bloomsbury Fashion Central database describes itself as a dynamic digital hub for interdisciplinary research in fashion and dress.
Content includes reference works, e articles, scholarly e-books, case studies, biographies, lesson plans, bibliographic guides, textbooks, video content, photos, and videos of fashion shows on the runway and backstage, and images from museums around the world.
Collections that make up the Bloomsbury Fashion central database include the Berg Fashion Library, Fairchild Books Library, Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive, Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive and Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases.
In addition to searching by collections, the database can also be searched by content type, organizations and design houses, by people, period, and places.
Hue is a fashion magazine for the FIT community, alumni, and friends. It is published three times a year by the Division of Communications and External Relations.
The magazine's website reports on the topics of business, design/ art, culture, research, and innovation and the Fashion Institute of Technology.
FITDIL (FIT Digital Image Library) is the exclusive image database of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). The database is divided into accessible open access collections and other collections that are only accessible to FIT users.
The open access collection includes the following libraries:
— Library Design Files
— Library Special Collections
— FIT College Archives
— Library Historical Forecast and Trend Reports
— Library Exhibits & Displays
— Hue Magazine Archives
New York Textile Month (NYTM) is a month-long festival celebrating textile creativity and promoting awareness of textiles.
The festival took place for the first time in 2015 and was created by trend researcher Lidewij Edelkoort.
To explore and celebrate the survival of different textile components and expressions, NYTM will create a calendar listing all the fabric-themed events, talks, walks, screenings and exhibitions to help the public better understand and embrace the textiles of life.
A highlight of the NYTM is the Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize, awarded to a textile or fashion design student who exhibits innovative thinking and inspiring creativity in textiles.
The Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) is a further and higher education university based in Poole, England, specializing in art, performance, design, and media.
It was formerly known as The Arts University College at Bournemouth and The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, and is the home of Bournemouth Film School.
The first art school in Bournemouth was the Bournemouth Government School of Art, established in 1880.
AUB is the second-largest university in Bournemouth and Poole, Bournemouth University being much larger and AECC University College being smaller.
The university was awarded Gold in the 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework, a government assessment of the quality of undergraduate teaching in universities and other higher education providers in England.
Arts University Bournemouth offers two textile-related degree programmes:
— BA (HONS) Fashion
— BA (HONS) Costume
Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
It is one of the five colleges of The New School.
The school was founded in 1896 by William Merritt Chase in search of individualistic artistic expression. It was the first of its kind in the country to offer programs in fashion design, advertising, interior design, and graphic design.
The school offers undergraduate and graduate programs ranging from architectural design, curatorial studies, to textiles and design and urban ecologies.
Among Parsons alumni are fashion designers, photographers, entrepreneurs, designers, illustrators, and artists who have made significant contributions to their respective fields. The college is a member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.
In addition to other theory courses, there is one fashion study course:
— Fashion Studies (MA)
Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
It is one of the five colleges of The New School.
The school was founded in 1896 by William Merritt Chase in search of individualistic artistic expression. It was the first of its kind in the country to offer programs in fashion design, advertising, interior design, and graphic design.
The school offers undergraduate and graduate programs ranging from architectural design, curatorial studies, to textiles and design and urban ecologies.
Among Parsons alumni are fashion designers, photographers, entrepreneurs, designers, illustrators, and artists who have made significant contributions to their respective fields. The college is a member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.
In addition to other design courses, there are four textile-related programmes:
— Fashion Design (AAS)
— Fashion Design (BFA)
— Fashion Design and Society (MFA)
— Textiles (MFA)
The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in Denton, Texas. Until 1988, it was known as North Texas State University. UNT was founded as a non-sectarian, coeducational, private teachers' college in 1890 and was formally adopted by the state 11 years later.
UNT is the flagship institution of the University of North Texas System, which includes additional universities in Dallas and Fort Worth. UNT also has a location in Frisco. It consists of 14 colleges and schools.
The College of Visual Arts offers an undergraduate program (Bachelor of Fine Arts) as well as a postgraduate program (Master of Fine Arts) in Fashion Design.
The UNT Digital Library is home to materials from University of North Texas research, creative, and scholarly activities, and serves as a centralized repository for the rich collections held by University of North Texas libraries, colleges, schools, and departments.
The Texas Fashion Collection comprises historic dress from the 19th century, along with 20th-century examples of haute couture, high fashion and ready-to-wear by notable American and international designers.
The collection is an educational resource for students, researchers and the general public.
The Texas Fashion Collection is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and documentation of historic dress from the 19th century, along with 20th-century examples of haute couture, high fashion and ready-to-wear by notable American and international designers.
The collection of top designers' works began in 1938 through the efforts of Stanley and Edward Marcus. Today, the collection includes over 18,000 items.
It is operated by the University of North Texas through the College of Visual Arts and Design (CVAD) and housed on the UNT campus in Denton, Texas.
The collection is an educational resource for students, researchers and the general public.
The Fashion History Timeline is an open-access source for fashion history knowledge, featuring objects and artworks from over a hundred museums and libraries that span the globe. The Timeline website offers well-researched, accessibly written entries on specific artworks, garments, and films for those interested in fashion and dress history.
Started as a pilot project by FIT art history faculty and students in the Fall of 2015, the Timeline aims to be an important contribution to public knowledge of the history of fashion and to serve as a constantly growing and evolving resource not only for students and faculty, but also for the wider world of those interested in fashion and dress history (from the Renaissance scholar to the simply curious).
The Fashion Studies Journal (FSJ) is an activist-oriented, advocacy-driven online home for members of the global fashion studies community to congregate in solidarity. We invite submissions that go against the grain of traditional academic scholarship, from works-in-progress, to critical think pieces, to profiles written by emerging thinkers as well as seasoned academics, journalists, and practitioners. FSJ provides an eclectic editorial approach that speaks truth to power and amplifies marginalized voices and honest conversations.
Contributions address all facets of the fashion system, but favour those perspectives that are egalitarian, feminist, queer and actively anti-racist.
The precariat of academic labour practices is also foregrounded in the coverage.
The database was created by fashion educator Kimberly M. Jenkins, who had collected resources on fashion and race in the course of her teaching career and decided to create her own database of collected resources.
The goal for the database is to center and amplify the voices of those who have been racialized (and thus marginalized) in fashion, illuminate under-examined histories and address racism throughout the fashion system.
The platform will provide hands-on research and publishing opportunities to students, scholars, and writers both concerned with–and invested in–dismantling racism and bringing critical stories to light.
The Fashion and Race Database is organized into six distinct sections:
The Library, objects that matter, profiles, essays and news, the directory and the Calendar.
About Dressed: The History of Fashion is a podcast all about fashion.
The initiators of the project are April Calahan and Cassady Zachary.
April Calahan is a Special Collections Associate and Manuscript Collections Curator at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she is also a lecturer in the Art History Department.
Cassady Zachary is a fashion historian and writer. The weekly podcast is described as “the gold standard of fashion podcasting” by the renowned fashion magazine Vogue.
Fashion Research Network (FRN), is an interdisciplinary network for researchers in fashion studies. Through collaboration, the network facilitate, disseminate and promote conversations which critically examine the nature of fashion studies and the parameters of the field. FRN brings together researchers from multiple subject areas and institutions to critically examine the role of dress in society.
Founded at a point when the field was both less established and less defined, FRN has played a key part in shaping understanding of fashion studies as a diverse and dynamic field in the UK.
Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) is a European Territorial Cooperation Programme funded by the European Commission with the ambition to make the North-West Europe area a key economic player and an attractive place to work and live, with high levels of innovation, sustainability, and cohesion. It invests EUR 370 million of European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in activities based on the cooperation of organizations from eight countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
The Fibersort project is about the separation of textiles by type.
The Fibersort is a technology that automatically sorts large volumes of mixed sorted, these materials become reliable, consistent input materials for high value textile to textile recyclers.
Hellenic Clothing Industry Association (HCIA) is a non-profit industrial association established in Athens in 1962. It represents Greek companies from all sub-sectors of the clothing industry (men, women, and children’s clothing, underwear, swimwear, shirts, fashion accessories and raw materials).
The Association represents the sector’s companies in International, European, and National authorities and sectoral organizations. HCIA provides its members with information and consulting relating to the commercial, industrial, and social policy matters as well as disseminates members with information on technological, industrial, commercial and economic issues.
The International Association of Users of Artificial and Synthetic Filament Yarns and of Natural Silk (AIUFFASS) is the representative body of the European synthetic and artificial filament and silk industry. The association was founded in Geneva in 1954 as an association of users of synthetic and artificial filament yarns. In 1987, the silk industry joined the association, which has existed in this constellation ever since and has represented the interests of European industrial users ever since. The focus is on the needs and interests of small and medium-sized enterprises.
The Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice aims to create a forum to facilitate, stimulate and disseminate research in the domain of textile design and practice.
Encompassing a range of approaches, disciplines and outcomes, the journal publishes submissions from the following areas: research through textile designing and making; research informed by textiles; and research on textile design education-encompassing pedagogic studies into the development of textile designers, practitioners, and researchers.
Within these areas, the journal is interested in the following: interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches and the role of collaboration; relationships between traditional and contemporary practices; the application of new and traditional technologies and materials from both technical and aesthetic perspectives; sustainable textile practices, interfaces between research and industry; pedagogy for the education and continuing professional development of textile designers and practitioners; new research methods in the field with illustrative case studies; and the textile design process including the role of drawing and the significance of craft.
The Swiss Textile College (STF) is a training centre for the textile and garment industry and trade, which emerged from the Wattwil Weaving School and the Zurich Silk Weaving School in 1972.
With its courses of study, courses and workshops, the STF covers the entire field of the textile and fashion industry, both in production, marketing and trade.
The School of Textiles is divided into different departments: Textiles, Fashion and Business Management, each with several Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes.
In addition, the area of research and development is another focal point. Research projects are funded by the Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI) of the Swiss Confederation.
The school also offers start-ups and graduates a start-up centre, the so-called incubator, where start-up projects can be realized. An extensive industrial machine park is available to founders.
The wfk - Cleaning Technology Institute is a research institution organized in the form of a non-profit, member-based association to conduct pre-competitive basic and applied research in the field of cleaning, reprocessing, functionalization and hygiene of various textile and non-textile materials.
In addition, the wfk institute is active in standardization as well as education and training and organizes one of the world's largest conferences in the field of cleaning and hygiene, the International Detergency Conference (IDC), every two years.
Other areas of work include process and equipment testing, disinfection and hygiene controls, as well as test materials for testing cleaning and disinfection processes. In addition to modern laboratories, the premises include a technical centre where new cleaning procedures can be tested under practical conditions.
Isfahan's university of technology (IUT) is one of the pioneers among Iran's Public universities. The university has 14 faculties and departments with about 11000 students and 600 academic members and offers four disciplines of engineering, basic sciences, agriculture, and Natural resources.
The Textile engineering department, established in 1984, is dedicated to advancement of textile technology, colour science, fibre science & chemistry, polymer processing, fibre engineering and innovative applications of textiles. The principle mission of the textile engineering department is training of specialist graduates at B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD levels.
The department offers B.Sc. program in the fields of textile technology, technical textiles, fibre science & textile chemistry and clothing engineering. At post graduate level, the department offers M.Sc. and PhD program in textile technology and textile chemistry & fibre science.
The Wool Research Association (WAR)is an autonomous cooperative research organization established in 1963 in collaboration with the Government of India.
The association provides technological and scientific solutions to the wool sector in particular and the textile industry in general, besides achieving the overall goals of scientific and technological advancement set by the industry leaders and policymakers in India.
In this endeavour, the organization has moulded its own standards to obtain accreditation as an international research and development institution and provide solutions to various technical and techno-economic problems of the growing textile industry in India.
Man-Made Textile Research Association (MANTRA) is an independent textile research association founded in 1981. The idea of establishing a body to meet the growing need for quality control in the growing textile industry around the city of Surat in South Gujarat first came up in the 1970s.
The objective was to carry out research and development activities and provide testing and technical service facilities for the man-made fibre textile industry in particular and other allied industries in general.
MANTRA is one of the eight National Textile Research Associations (TRA) and the leading one in the field of man-made fibres under the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India and recognized as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.
The Synthetic & Art Silk Mills' Research Association (SASMIRA) is a cooperative enterprise set up by the Indian textile industry as a multi-functional institute to meet their scientific and technological needs.
SASMIR came into existence at a time when companies in the silk and artificial silk industry, comprising a large number of small mills, initiated the setting up of a cooperative research unit. The venture was supported by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and culminated in the formation of SASMIR, formerly known as the Silk and Art Silk Mills' Research Association, in 1950.
Commencing with the testing of silk and art silk materials, SASMIRA has geared its activities since then to meet the changing needs of the man-made textile industry thereby fulfilling its objectives. At present, SASMIRA is linked to the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India.
Northern India Textile Research Association (NITRA)is a textile research institute in the country. The textile industry and Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India jointly established NITRA in 1974 for conducting applied scientific research and providing support services to Indian textile industry.
The organization is situated at NCR Ghaziabad, near national capital New Delhi.
NITRA’s prime activities include research & development, technical consultancy, quality evaluation of materials, manpower training and publishing technical books and papers. The academic wing is the NITRA Technical Campus (NTC), established with the aim to train young professionals for the textile, apparel, fashion, retail, and IT sectors
NITRA Technical Campus (NTC) is the academic wing of NITRA, established with a view to groom youngsters to become corporate professionals in the textile, apparel, fashion, retail and IT sectors.
The South India Textile Research Association (SITRA), founded in 1965, is governed by a Board of Directors consisting of representatives from industry, government, and academia. SITRA is sponsored by the industry and supported by the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India.
The campus, which covers a stretch of 32.5 hectares, is equipped with a whole range of sophisticated textile testing equipment and modern machinery with textile testing, electronics and calibration laboratories and a library. Within the campus is a pilot mill where real-time simulation testing and research is conducted.
The Bombay Textile Research Association (BTRA) was founded in 1954 by members of the Millowners' Association, Bombay. Since its inception, the number of members has grown considerably. The aim is to meet the technological requirements of the Indian textile industry and to achieve the goals set at the national level in the field of science and technology.
BTRA members include not only textile companies (both from the factory sector and the decentralized sector), but also manufacturers of synthetic fibres, machinery, dyes and chemical auxiliaries.
Industrial research is now seen as a commercial operation, justified solely by the benefits of the results for the textile industry. Therefore, from the beginning, BTRA's limited resources have been efficiently deployed in the areas of research and development where the textile industry derives the greatest benefit.
The Ahmedabad Textile Industries Research Association was founded in 1947 by the textile mills of Ahmedabad as an autonomous, non-profit research and development institution. The activities of the institution cover all aspects from fibre to finished fabric in traditional textiles, as well as in technical textiles, geotextiles, nanotechnology and composites.
The core mission of the association is to support the Indian textile and allied industries to enhance their international competitiveness.
In addition, the focus is on professionalization in technology, engineering and management, as well as the implementation of application-oriented studies.
The National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, popularly known as the National Crafts Museum & Hastkala Academy, celebrates the rich, diverse, and practising craft traditions of India.
At present the Museum collection consists of over 33,000 specimens in various crafts, acquired over a period of 60 years, collected from various states of India.
The museum collection consists of a variety of traditional artefacts such as Textiles, a vast range of metal lamps, sculptures, utensils etc, Wood-works, Folk/tribal paintings, range of cane and bamboo crafts, clay, and terracotta figures and a lot more. The exquisite examples of textiles include Kalamkaris, Jamawars, Pashmina and Shahtosh shawls, embroidered fabrics especially Kanthas, Chikankari works and chaklas Tie and Die (Bandhani) fabrics, Baluchar and Jamdaani saris, Pichwais, phulkaris, Ikat fabrics of Orissa, Chamba Rumals, Block printed textile fabrics of Gujarat and Rajasthan, Himru textile pieces of Maharashtra, Naga shawls, Chanderi saris and a variety of tribal textiles of the Lambadi, Toda and Naga tribes of North- eastern India.
The Ministry of Textiles is an Indian government national agency responsible for the formulation of policy, planning, development, export promotion and regulation of the textile industry in India. This includes all natural, artificial, and cellulosic fibres that go into the making of textiles, clothing, and Handicrafts. The Ministry of Textiles comprises the Cotton Textile Industry, the Jute Industry, the Silk, and Silk Textile Industry, Man-made Fibre/ Filament Yarn Industry and the wool industry. The Ministry's functions include Textile Policy & Coordination, Export Promotion, and Planning & Economic Analysis of the entire Indian textile value chain.
The Modemuseum Feigel (MMF) presents women's fashion of the 20th century, focusing particularly on the region of Baden-Württemberg and the district of Stuttgart.
The focus of the exhibited garments is on everyday fashion and features more than 3,000 individual pieces, which due to the selection contains a cross-section of the fashion of the last century. The museum also houses a collection of books, magazines and pictorial material from fashion journals, which can be viewed on site and researched on the website. The museum was founded by the collector Gabriele Bauer- Feigel.
The website offers a preview of the collector's fashion exhibits on display, as well as the changing exhibitions.