Our Great Socio-Cultural Heritage

The Indian textile tradition, dating from the pre-Harappan civilisation, is over 7000 years old. India has exported cotton textiles all over the world since centuries, and takes great pride in its rich textile traditions. Even today, each region has specialised traditional skills in production of colourful textiles, with thousands of distinctive motives in many exquisite styles.

Similies and metaphors, idioms and sayings alluding to textiles, abound in the literature of all 22 of our languages and hundreds of dialects.

Our modern textile industry caters to every taste of the widely differentiated populace of over 100 crores(1 billion). We have a vibrant industry, creating abundance within the country and growing actively in exports.