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He said: "Dabur&wholesale High Purity Titanium Sheets39;s mobile honey-testing lab will offer rapid and cost effective services to test the quality of honey from the source, thereby cutting off adulteration". The mobile honey testing lab was flagged off from Dabur Research and Development Centre in Sahibabad by the company's CEO Sunil Duggal. Starting its journey from Uttar Pradesh, the lab will tap two major centres for bee farming in Muzaffarpur, Bihar and Sundarbans, West Bengal..New Delhi: Homegrown FMCG major Dabur India today launched an on-the-wheels lab to test honey so as to help reduce adulteration and ensure greater # purity of the product."With the help of the mobile honey testing lab, bee- keepers can now test the purity of their honey and avoid adulteration," the company said in a statement.Moreover, the production of jainsen (typical Meghalaya women’s wear) with local mulberry silk has also been introduced. It is an entire language in itself.Even in the middle ages, the ancient Ahom (present day Assam) kings, like the nobilities of Japan, patronised silk rearing and silk weaving. Weaving can begin as soon as the first fruit of the new rice have been eaten. Animals are terrified of blood, and consequently are very afraid of the women due to menstrual cycles. It was feared that the cloth might attract snakes to the weavers. Women do spinning and weaving only. Only the chief’s and the official’s families were allowed to weave these clothes.

An ancient king named Trilochan (alias Subrai) was a great patron and he married many girls only to honour their skills. It is interesting that these phanek designs are peculiar to each tribe and they wear specific designs only. It is in interesting that now it is muga that is considered to be the veritable king of silks from the region, followed by pat and eri. The important centre for weaving endi silk is Sonidan, a village of about hundred bamboo huts. They were called by different names like Thangang, Saipi-khup, Ponmongvom, and Khamtang. It was also forbidden to put on these clothes while crossing a big river. It is forbidden for men to take any part in the operation, as it is feared that any man who participates in spinning or weaving will be struck by lightning. It is so ironical that so many of them wouldn’t even have chance to wear some of the fabulous textiles they helped create. In Arunachal Pradesh too, there has not been much external influence on the designs of the textiles although there has been some borrowing of motifs from neighbouring areas. The hands of man who takes part if dying are strained with the blue dye, and the smell of the dye hangs about them.com. After all, women play a pivotal role in the process of weaving and spinning and in some areas like the Northeast and many other places it is women who do most of the weaving and keep the tradition alive. There were some with neutral “temple” designs that could be sported by anyone.

Specific designs and styles of weaving set apart the tribes with a complex hierarchy firmly in place even till date, especially at the grass-root level. All those red, white and black striped shawls that look same if not similar to the uninitiated have their own story to tell of tribes and their lifestyles and heroes. Puans, somewhat like lungis, are woven in numerous designs on the traditional loin looms. The reason why participation in dyeing results in bad luck in the chase is rather complicated. Incidentally, similar is the case in Manipur and other parts of the Northeast where the loin loom is in use. The Khakloo are a small, little known tribe who claim direct relationship with the Purum Tipra — a dominant community that ruled Tripura for centuries.It is handloom week and, for a diehard handloom fan like me, it gives me greatest pleasure to see the lead taken by the textile minister, Smriti Irani, to take forward the struggle to make handlooms the first choice for apparel especially among the younger people.A few years ago, the Lalit Kala Akademi was holding the Octave festivals of all the north-eastern states and I was curating and designing an art show for them. Besides Sonidan, women in other villages carry out endi silk weaving. The colour and texture of the fabric is still vivid in my memory even after two decades! In subsequent visits I made it a point to visit the market but never found anything as breathtaking!