Philippines Tropical Fabrics Month celebration under way
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The Philippine Tropical Materials Month, remaining celebrated in January led the Philippine Textile Investigate Institute of the Division of Science and Engineering (DOST-PTRI), aims to increase awareness about the use of organic fibres like pineapple, banana, abaca and the Philippines silk for textile and allied products and solutions. The 54th founding anniversary of the institute will be celebrated on January 30.
This year’s concept is ‘Fashioning Philippine Textiles in the Now Regular and in the Year of the Imaginative Economy’.
Malacanang Proclamation 313 declared January every yr as the Philippine Tropical Materials (PTF) month to advertise Filipino textile products and solutions that are indigenous to the Philippines.
DOST-PTRI will be owning a two-working day celebration on January 27-28 of the 1st-at any time digital conduct of the annual Textiles Empowering Lives Anew (TELA) Stakeholders’ Conference. TELA has been the model of DOST-PTRI’s initiatives to strengthen the global aggressive of Philippine textile and allied industries. The Philippine textiles e-portal will also be released.
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The Philippine Tropical Materials Month, remaining celebrated in January led the Philippine Textile Investigate Institute of the Division of Science and Engineering, aims to increase awareness about the use of organic fibres like pineapple, banana and abaca for textile and allied products and solutions. The 54th founding anniversary of the institute will be celebrated on January 30.
