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In Surat’s textile maze, there’s a fast fashion player going sustainable with almost zero minimums, made-to-order fabrics, and size-inclusive garments shipped across India and beyond. Flipping the bulk-first playbook, from one metre to a multi-crore business, Fabcurate’s small-batch smarts with print, cut, stitch, ship is scaling big as it rewrites the e-commerce rulebook.

From bootstrapped beginnings to a ₹230 crore powerhouse, the True Colors story is far from over. Having mastered the art of resilience, the company is now writing its next chapter — one defined by expansion, innovation, and self-reliance. This is the second and concluding part of the story.

From borrowed ₹4 lakh at a 10x15 feet leased basement to a sweeping 2,00,000 square feet with a turnover of around ₹230 crore, Surat-headquartered True Colors Ltd delivers a vertically integrated ecosystem for digital fabric printing, from machinery to sublimation paper, inks, printing services and countrywide support. Read the journey of a start-up as it navigated the choke points to emerge as a cutting force with a country wide imprint.

From farmyard waste to  fabric with a future—Prof. Georgy Sunny of NIFT Kannur has spun arecanut husk into a breakthrough in sustainable  textiles. Born of rural roots and backed by a decade of research, this zero-chemical fibre is now eyeing a saree-sector debut in 2025.

Re-strategise, re-set, upskill, go compliant, build in agility and resilience—these should be the mantras for the footwear industry as it gears up in the next 89 days for the final dictum from the White House. And yeah, US+1 will work here too. And that could well be here’s looking at you India!

On a mission to use sustainable algae technologies to replace petroleum-derived products to launch carbon negative products, Living Ink is a biomaterials company that has developed Algae Black, a sustainable alternative to the black pigment used to make materials such as ink, plastics, leathers and rubber. texfash.com in conversation with the Co-Founders Scott Fulbright and Stevan Albers.

A start-up straddling two continents is spinning an all-new yarn from a 100% biodegradable and 100% recyclable, regenerative but sadly forgotten tree that since time immemorial has been growing unabashed in the wild.

Spectacles on the bridge of the nose, eyes crinkling whenever that malleable fine wire twists recalcitrant, 50-something Bhanu Das deftly crochets a loop, her fingers flying as she weaves a metallic string. Her husband, Jatindra Nath Das, the 65+ owner of a narrow, long and rectangular Barpetia jewellery-making workshop, mixes tiny pieces of silver with pounded wood-coal and fires it in a mud stove. Once the embers go cold, the ash will be blown away leaving behind wee balls. Four men on the...

This is the world’s first — a wine not from any vineyard but from tea gardens! And, the tea gardens of Assam. You read that right — Assam’s very own Alpana Saikia had been crafting this beverage in her kitchen for long and when she read a news item in 2017 that Jorhat’s Tocklai Tea Research Institute has proved that good wine can indeed be made from Assam's tea, retaining all its health benefits, passion and a new-found hobby merged to go for it as an entrepreneur. For this Nagaon girl, when...

Primal Soles, a Netherlands-based start-up, makes insoles from natural Mediterranean cork, claiming it to be the planet's first 100% circular, recyclable and sustainable shoe insole brand.