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The fourth edition of Dharavi Design Museum has roped in local leather tailors to make creations out of tarp Kruti Saraiya with her team. The fourth edition of Dharavi Design Museum has roped in local leather tailors to make creations out of tarp Dharavi Design Museum’s latest collective, The Waterproof Project isn’t an ideal image of a ‘museum’. It could pass off as a pop up store with a makeshift cart, at best.

But that isn’t quite how graphic designer Kruti Saraiya looks at it. “It serves the purpose of a museum, because helped the kids in the area start a conversation about their surroundings,” she says. On the grounds of Maulana Azad School in Dharavi, children happily smile for shutterbugs as they pose with artefacts from their very own ‘museum’. Local potters, carpenters, embroiders and broom-makers from Dharavi pooled in their resources to create over 18 products like duffle bags, laptop sleeves, wallets, tiffin cases, hand bags, mobile pouches — all made by silicone rubber tarpaulin and hence waterproof. The project was started by co-founders Jorge Mañes Rubio and Amanda Pinatih and was taken over by graphic designer Kruti Saraiya once the duo left for Amsterdam. “It was like a relay race,” says Kruti.

“They passed on the baton to me and I decided to take it forward from there. We decided to work with leather makers as monsoon was approaching and we wanted them to experiment with tarpaulin as a medium,” she shares. After the initial hassles of finding a tailor who would agree to work and experiment with tarpaulin, Kruti and her team decided to go around Dharavi with yards of tarpaulin and handed it over to about 10 leather tailors. “Working with tarpaulin for them was shocking. According to them, it was a very cheap material that they used only to cover their roofs during rains,” she adds.28-year-old Shiraj Kamal is one of the tailors from Dharavi who decided to take up the tarpaulin challenge and created the products on display. “I had no clue that something would be made out of a material like tarpaulin.

Madam got me tarpaulin and told me to make whatever I can. Initially it was difficult, but we eased into it,” he adds. Ask him about the durability of his products and he says, “These bags and cases are waterproof. I know they will sell because these bags won’t break or tear easily and there is a lot of scope in the market as there is no competition.” These products are strictly on display as part of the museum as of now, but the makers are open to business, if opportunity knocks.

The traditional chikan embroidery of Lucknow is now being threatened by its machine made version from China. Representational imageThe traditional chikan embroidery of Lucknow is now being threatened by its machine made version from China.Chinese chikan work that is flooding the market is about 30 per cent cheaper that the original handmade embroidery and also consumes less production time.

This is posing a direct threat to over five lakh workers in Lucknow who are involved in “chikankari”.A sector-specific analysis of the chikankari craft conducted by the Associated Rubber Products Manufacturers Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) has found that machine made chikan work is thriving because it comes much cheaper that the original work.“Chinese chikan work is thriving in the export sector because it can be produced much faster and timely delivery of the product is more important when it comes to cross-border trade,” the study said.D.S. Rawat, secretary-general of Assocham, said that chikan industry is highly fragmented and has been facing significant challenges owing to insufficient market information on export trends, opportunities and prices, scarcity of raw materials, lack of adequate finance and growing competition from mill and factory made products.He said that less than even 5 per cent of the chikan manufacturers in the city are into direct exports. Slow response from the supply side could be a limiting factor for exports of chikankari craft, considering the fact that demand pattern in international markets revolves around quality goods.

Mr Rawat said that there is an urgent need to create awareness about chikankari and its products through promotional methods like building brand image, conducting road shows and craft festivals in target countries and also point of sale publicity through attractive display and banners. Innovative packaging is also needed for the products.Assocham has also suggested government facilitation for creation of niche markets for chikan products, opening showrooms and warehouses in select countries according to their current market size and import values.

Mr Rawat underlined the need for developing a mechanism to enable rural and semi-urban artisans to encourage them to become entrepreneurs and take advantage of emerging market opportunities.“The government, in partnership with private sector, needs to encourage integrated enterprise development by providing supporting services such as local centres for skill training, product adaptation, vocational training and entrepreneurship development,” he added.

The world’s biggest online retailer will sell Apple’s iPhone, iPad and other devices. The deal underscores how top brands such as Apple and Nike Inc, which long resisted distributing products via Amazon, are increasingly turning to the e-commerce site because it has become a critical channel for reaching customers.

Amazon has taken a harder line on counterfeit goods as well.Amazon.com Inc on Friday said it would carry more Apple Inc products globally in time for the holiday shopping season, as the technology rivals put aside past differences to boost sales.In coming weeks, the world’s biggest online retailer will sell the latest editions of Apple’s iPhone, iPad and other devices in the United States, Europe, Japan and India. Amazon sold a limited assortment from Apple previously that included Mac computers and Beats headphones.The deal underscores Grommet wholesaler how top brands such as Apple and Nike Inc, which long resisted distributing products via Amazon, are increasingly turning to the e-commerce site because it has become a critical channel for reaching customers.

Amazon has taken a harder line on counterfeit goods as well.As of Jan. 4, Amazon will rid its site of Apple products from third-party merchants not authorized by the Cupertino, California-based technology company. Still, shoppers will be able to find non-branded accessories - like headphones - that are compatible with Apple devices.Third-party merchants will be allowed to sell as they have been through the holiday season, while Amazon will add Apple products to its official Apple at Amazon page.The lineup will include the Apple Watch but not the Apple HomePod, a high-end alternative to Amazon’s voice-controlled Echo device.

Such competition in Silicon Valley has often come at the expense of customers.Alphabet Inc’s Google pulled its video streaming app YouTube from two Amazon devices last year because of several complaints against the online retailer, including its decision not to sell some of Google’s products. Amazon now carries the Apple TV, but only after it became compatible with Amazon’s Prime Video.“We’re working with Amazon to improve the experience for Apple customers on their site and we look forward to those customers having another great way to buy iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac and more,” Apple said in a statement.About 71 percent of Apple’s sales in fiscal 2018, ended in September, were through indirect distribution channels like Amazon.

Products to be sold in conjunction with Goop include £12 Rubber seal Manufacturers patches' containing CBD, a non-psychoactive cannabis compound which some advocates believe could have medical benefits.Other products include weed bath bombs, cannabis-infused tea bags and luxury gluten-free cannabis chocolate bars.

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle empire Goop is set to capitalise on Californias newly relaxed cannabis laws by promoting a range of marijuana products which, according to its advocates, can promote well-being..The American chain, whose mission is to mainstream marijuana, was even the official sponsor of a £500-a-head In Goop Health conference in Los Angeles this month.

Actress expands Goop empire with toiletry products including bath bombs and weed-infused cocktails as California relaxes marijuana laws Goop, known for backing such bizarre therapies as vaginal steaming and coffee enemas, will soon be seen providing vaporiser pens and cannabis tea bags.

Goop, known for backing such bizarre therapies as vaginal steaming and coffee enemas, will soon be seen providing vaporiser pens and cannabis tea bags, and even pot-based recipes, including how to make a Pimm s-based Cannabis Cup cocktail.Paltrow, has admitted to smoking cannabis and is collaborating with marijuana superstore MedMen for the new venture.A plethora of Gwynnie-approved products now feature on a Goop-branded wall in one of MedMen branches in California, where the drug was legalised in January.The company ran panels on the purported benefits of cannabis and handed out gift bags full of ganja goodies to hundreds of guests