Handloom

A customer browsing through handloom dresses at a stall at the Jute Diversification Promotion Centre’s jute product and handloom textile fair, currently being held at Farmgate, Dhaka. The fair will run until 25th March. This photo was taken on Saturday. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain
Bangladesh

Dhaka handloom expo presents wide varieties, to continue till Eid eve

These handlooms produce over eight lakh pieces of high-quality lungi every year, worth over Tk121 crore. PHOTO: NOOR-A-ALAM
Panorama

The fine handloom lungi villages of Dhaka

Raha Nobo Kumar, director of the Gandhi Ashram Trust, under which the handloom factory was established, grimly checks fabrics produced in the factory. The factory, once buzzing with the whir of handloom machines, is now on the brink of collapse. Photo: TBS
Economy

Covid cripples Noakhali’s lone handloom factory

Photo:TBS
Events

4th Heritage Handloom Festival draws crowds of foreign visitors 

Representational image. Picture: Collected
Events

Heritage Handloom Festival begins Wednesday to connect weavers with buyers

Handloom entrepreneur village soon: Minister
Industry

Handloom entrepreneur village soon: Minister

Representational image. Picture: Collected
Bangladesh

Heritage Handloom Festival to start tomorrow

About 100 Tangail-based loom owners had to shut down their businesses after failing to cope with a rapidly falling demand for shawls. Photo: TBS
Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Over 1 lakh weavers in Tangail become jobless amid pandemic

Handloom units drop to 37pc in 15yrs: BBS
Economy

Handloom units drop to 37pc in 15yrs: BBS