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About Malkha | Malkha
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Alkha stands for a decentralised, sustainable, field-to-fabric cotton textile chain, collectively owned and managed by the primary producers – the farmers, the ginners, the spinners, the dyers and the weavers. The Malkha initiative, started in 2003, includes at present spinners, dyers and weavers engaged in understanding and evolving the practice of collective working. Once ginning is introduced, farmers and ginners will also be part of the initiative. The Malkha process explores technology that responds...
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Malkha, produced by a group of decentralised, primary-producer-run cooperatives, is pure cotton cloth. Be it a saree, a dupatta, or a piece of fabric, a Malkha product derives its distinct identity from the following features that characterize its making. Cotton lint that goes into the making of malkha yarn is subjected to neither baling nor unbaling – processes that destroy the elasticity, springiness, absorbency and lustre natural to cotton. Treatment of yarn and fabric using natural, non-toxic dyes.
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