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Bhubaneswar ( Orissa) : Arati Ahuja, Secretary Orissa Textile and Handloom Department, never hoped that the Ikat of State, would pulled large crowd at the four-day Heimtextil fair under way at Frankfurt, second largest city of Germany.
When Ahuja arrives at Frankfurt, she has a different impression but things got changed with a large crowd pulled towards Orissa stall.
Participants at the fair informed through an Email from Germany that large number of visitors throng to Orissa stalls to purchase hand-woven textiles, Ikat (yarn tie and dye), Tussar (wild silk) and Bomkai (handwoven jacquard).
“Despite the recession which seems to be receding, we had good number of visitors and received serious business enquiries,” Ahuja said. Orissa Minister for Textiles and Handicrafts, Anjali Behera, was also on a two-day visit to the Frankfurt show to promote her State’s textile products.
India dominates the show in sheer numbers: a record number of 385 exhibitors even surpassed, for the first time, the 381 exhibitors from Germany, the host country that has for decades presented the largest contingent of exhibitors.
China with 380 exhibitors took the third position, though some German experts predicted that China could possibly overtake India at future events.
