The Vividness and Qualities of Indian Fabrics in a Nutshell

The fabrics business in India holds gigantic status. This industry offers the most essential necessities of the common populace. It is an independent industry that represents around 14% of the aggregate industrial yield. Indian fabric is most desired for its ethnic, natural sheds and numerous surfaces.

The textile industry in India is the largest one in terms of employment generation, responsible for 14 million new jobs. It generates huge potential for job creation in the sectors ranging from agricultural to industrial. Job opportunities are generated when cotton is cultivated. It does not require any specific support from the Government even at present to proceed further. The only thing required is to give some certain directions to unionize people to get sufficient share of the profit to spearhead development.

Industry Segments at a Glance-

Readymade garments covering clothing for people of all age groups

• Cotton fabrics including handlooms- millmade, Powerloom and handloom

• Man-made textiles

• Silk textiles, woolen textiles

• Handicrafts including carpets

• Coir and jute

The cottage industry with handlooms, with the cheapest of threads, produces average dress material, which costs only about 200 INR featuring fine floral and other patterns. It is not necessary to add any design to it. The women of the house spin the thread, and weave a piece in about a week.

Qualities of Indian Fabrics in a nutshell

India avails advantage of having ample assets of crude materials. It is one of the biggest makers of cotton yarn the world over, and furthermore, there are great assets of strands like polyester, silk, gooey and so forth.

There is extensive variety of cotton fibre accessible, and has a rapidly growing synthetic fibre industry making it the most dominant miyabi fabric supplier.

India has incredible competitiveness in this industry and has presence in almost each and every process of the value chain.

Availability of cheap and highly trained man-force in both, management and technical aspects. The country has a gigantic advantage due to minimized wage rates. Because of lowered labour cost, the manufacturing cost in this automatically gets down to a very reasonable limit.

The installed capability of spindles in the country contributes profusely for 24% share of the entire globe, and it is one of the largest exporters of fabric yarns in the international market. Having ultra modern functions and favoring fiscal policies, it is responsible for around 25% of the global trade in cotton yarn. The apparel industry in the country is largest foreign exchange earner, contributing 15% of the country's overall exports.

The garment industry is surprisingly diverse in scope, size, manufacturing infrastructure, type of textile produced, quantity and quality of the end products, costing, requirement for fabric etc. It includes suppliers of ready-made clothes for both domestic and global markets.

Tarun Sharma has almost a decade’s experience as a writer and blogger. His interest areas in writing include Sports, Apparel & Textile, Online Business, Engineering, to mention a few.