About Us
Hindustan Textiles began its voyage of excellence way back in 1939. With an unwavering focus on quality, Hindustan established a niche for itself effortlessly. Today, the products from Hindustan Textiles are exported to USA, UK, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, South Africa, Middle East, Japan, Singapore & Australia.
Hindustan Textiles has a world-wide reputation for its beautiful collections of unique furnishing fabrics – handloom fabrics in vibrant colours and textures, prints and embroideries. The scope of the fabric collections ranges from decorating basics – plain cottons in an extensive range of colours, stripes and checks. Hindustan Textiles is well known for its vibrant hand loomed cottons in plains, checks and stripes and has remained faithful to them through the years. All new launches and ranges are made up of or complemented by these beautiful fabrics. Each fabric is individual to itself as a result of the techniques used in its production and a major part of the charm and beauty of the product lies in the irregularity of the weave and of the pattern repeats.
The Process
Handloom natural fibers from the tropical monsoon lands of South India is produced in the most traditional of ways. It is dyed by hand using the most stable vat dyes available to the region and the high quality of the dyeing is attributed to the region receiving the brunt of the monsoon rains. The natural fibers are then woven on handlooms by some of the most skilled weavers in India, without the use of machines, using time-honoured techniques that have been handed down from generation to generation.
As a natural progression to complement our plains and stripes we introduced embroideries. Taking cues from the organic shapes of nature, we work with the most skilled hands in this field. Often taking our hand-loomed cotton base cloth and innovating with embroidery machines or, talented hand embroideries. It is the design itself which dictates the technique.
While handloom weaving is by its very nature ecologically friendly, the cultivation of yarns for cloth production itself throws down other challenges to fabric manufacturers, including Hindustan Textiles. World cotton cultivation in particular uses a vast amount of pesticide and fertilisers at present and there is just not enough cotton being grown without these. While organic fabrics for clothing are quite well-established in the fashion industry, so far Hindustan Textiles is one of the few companies to pioneer its use in home furnishings.
Hindustan Textiles is SA8000:2014 Certified Company.
