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'Fab' future for Manipur fabrics
- Tie-up to market state's textiles in metro
The Telegraph | Sumir Karmakar | Guwahati, June 6:
Those bright and intricate Manipuri fabrics you admired can now be found in the form of a pair of palazzos, shrugs or kurtis in a store near you.
Fabindia, a popular brand, has bought textiles from weavers in remote parts of Manipur. The handloom products were purchased as part of a project involving the Control Arms Foundation of India and Manipur Gun Survivors Network, two NGOs that collaborated with the Northeast Centre for Technology Application and Reach (NECTAR), a government agency under the Union ministry of science and technology and craft company Rangsutra and fabindia last year.
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