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The death-knell of Somerset-based leather manufacturer, Pittards had been sounded much earlier but when it finally closed shop last September, the story of a worldwide brand known for producing gloves for the Royal Family, is one that has lessons for entrepreneurs of all hues.

As canvassing reaches a quiet crescendo with low-key street campaigns and public meetings in Mizoram, it does so under the watchful eyes of the Presbyterian Church and civil society organisations united under the umbrella Mizoram People’s Forum (MPF) that gets all political parties to sign an agreement every election to follow a code of conduct, perhaps more stringent than even that of the Election Commission. Five key stakeholders are fighting it out, with a new entrant in the form of the Aam...

Mizoram goes to the hustings on November 7 and as one criss-crossed part of the state last week, the usual poll-hungama of rallies, buntings, cut-outs of political leaders on highways, the countryside or in the two main towns, door-to-door canvassing, was conspicuously amiss. Instead, a group of party workers would point you to a make-shift stall or hall for some tea and snacks. It is not because they are laidback. Anything but that! Talk to people from across segments of society and the...

When the party ends before it begins and crushes in its wake a hundred dreams—this is what happened to the Tlawng Festival that was scheduled at Lunglei on 13–14 October. A venue where, the organisers claimed, no other event has had to take permission, the authorities-that-be cited November 2022’s National Green Tribunal order to cancel the festival. “The District Park has always been open for the people. There were no permissions required. We would have paid the money for using the grounds...

Sustainability and circularity will have to increasingly become a part of the textile-apparel industry, especially in India. The pre- and post-consumer waste, the missing economies at the drawing board, in design and across the supply chain — all these and more are imperatives that need to be taken up with urgency. The process that led to the recent CITI Sustainability Awards underscored that and more. A texfash.com report. 

The $3 million Dhaka-based Recycle-Raw claims to be the only compliant textile-garment waste-sorting company in Bangladesh and on mission to change the garbage sector into gold.

The commercialisation of the tech collaboration between fashion-forward Italy’s PureDenim and alpha geek Israel’s Sonovia to minimise use of water and enhance dye durability is expected in H2/2023. A texfash.com report.

Does the Shroud of Turin really date back to the time of Jesus Christ? A recent peer-reviewed research suggests as much even as it calls for further laboratory tests. The experimental results are compatible with the hypothesis that the TS is a 2000-year-old relic, as supposed by Christian tradition.

The 3G Tailor Training System is implemented by training of dedicated trainers inside a garment factory so that they can train others as per the skill requirements of the factory.

Bangladesh is going all out to emerge as a leader in circularity by scaling its recycling capacity and generating more value from these waste streams. The 2020–21 Circular Fashion Partnership (CFP0 project paved the way, but there were lessons for the future too. A texfash.com report.