TOXIC LEGACY

Rumpelstiltskin

Spinning skin from silk

New route to nylon

Avoids use of corrosive chemicals

Fancy dress?

Bioceramic clothes in vogue in Kerala, but experts sceptical

Targeting silk industry

Ban boom

POISON WATER

A new silk route out of China

The Asian giant unravels the most extensive genetic mapping of the silkworm

ONLINE

Cotton exports deferred

Farmers fear losses in spite of predictions of a bumper harvest

The protection racket

Thread less in 2005

Why weavers in Belgaum, Karnataka, can not go to market

South Asia

Workers fall ill

Polluted lagoon

CHECKING POLLUTION

Plastic clothes

Discarded plastic is being recycled into clothes

Energy in news on May 14

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and debates on energy

In short

Focus shifts to man-made fibre

Farmers sidelined in draft national fibre policy

Toxic dyes contaminate vegetables

Dye filter

An improvised bio-sand filter helps Nepal dyers treat toxic effluents

Textile therapy

A handloom trader experiments with traditional medicinal herbs for dyeing garments

Dyeing delights

In short