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Fiber and design group tours textile facilities on
14-day India trip.
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| Article Type: | Brief article |
| Subject: |
Designers
(Education) Textile industry (Educational aspects) |
| Pub Date: | 03/22/2011 |
| Publication: | Name: Human Ecology Publisher: Cornell University, Human Ecology Audience: Academic Format: Magazine/Journal Subject: Health; Science and technology; Social sciences Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2011 Cornell University, Human Ecology ISSN: 1530-7069 |
| Issue: | Date: Spring, 2011 Source Volume: 39 Source Issue: 1 |
| Product: | Product Code: 2200000 Textile Mill Products NAICS Code: 313 Textile Mills |
| Geographic: | Geographic Scope: India; United States Geographic Code: 9INDI India; 1USA United States |
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| Accession Number: | 266957312 |
| Full Text: |
Thirteen students and four faculty members from the Department of
Fiber Science and Apparel Design (FAD) visited the Indian cities of
Mambas, Surat; Coimbatore, and Hyderabad Jan. 4-18, touring textile and
apparel production facilities. Among the highlights on FSAD's
first-ever sponsored trip; overseas, said trip: coordinator and;
associate professor Charlotte Jirousek, were visits to a hand-embroidery
workshop; commercial weaving, dyeing, printing, and knitting operations;
a cotton processing and spinning mill; and an ikat dyeing and
Hand-weaving cooperative. The FSA: D students were part of Gomell's
International Agriculture and Rural Development (based in the College of
Agriculture and: Life Sciences) yearly field trip to India and the
pre-trip course, Agriculture in Developing Nations [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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