INDONESIA HOME TEXTILE SECTOR YET TO FULLY EXPLOIT COUNTRY’S RICH TEXTILE TRADITIONS

A JAKARTA-based designer and exporter of soft furnishings has told WTiN.com how her country’s home textile sector could prosper by using more of the country’s rich and varied tradition of woven fabrics in its design, especially if production could be scaled up reducing unit costs. Melissa Gobel, the founder of Calissa Soft Furnishing, a Jakarta company supplying soft furnishings to a high end customer base, including residential, office and hotel clients, stressed the wide variety of traditional fabrics that are available. These include she said, woven ...


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