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Silk Board to roll out lingerie made of Eri silk

A new range of inner wears for women developed out of Eri silk using knitting technology will soon be rolled out by the Central Silk Board (CSB) in association with Tirupur-based NIFT-TEA Knitwear Institute. According to Shankar Kotrannavar, Assistant Director of CSB, the technology to make the product has been evolved during a research conducted to bring out innovative products using silk with knitting as the base. Till now, clusters like Tirupur are predominantly into cotton-based knitwear products, he said on the sidelines of an event organised by the Board and NIFT-TEA Institute at Sripuram.

The new set of lingerie developed out of Eri silk is comfortable, light and has good thermal properties for winters and coolness in summer. Kotrannavar also hinted that the joint research being conducted by the Board with NIFT-TEA Institute would be soon developing more diversified silk-blended products that could be manufactured with knitting technology. Even though the Board usually promotes products with pure silk as raw material, it is trying to come out with products made of silk blended with other natural fibres such as cotton, modal and bamboo only based on the industry demand that was based on the trends, he said.

Fabric made of pure silk was little more expensive and hence, the industry was looking for blended products to cut down cost at the same time could offer the consumers the luxury of silk.

 
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