Here is a visual guide to the different textile arts on display at the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia:

Cotton prices have increased significantly over the last eight months, a period when the harvesting is intensified and Brazilian cotton exports move up. The 2011/12 season (harvested in 2012) was the second highest in history, and purchasers expected significant price drops in Brazil, which was observed in the first semester of 2012. However, the trend changed and domestic and export demands underpinned prices. In the second semester of 2012, significant volumes exported recovered prices reduci

Cotton textile exports are expected to grow by 9 per cent at USD 9.56 billion in the current fiscal as against USD 8.42 billion in the previous year despite adverse market conditions in key markets of the US and European Union, an industry body said today. “Cotton textiles are amongst the select few items in the textile and clothing basket that have shown positive growth in exports during the current fiscal (2012-13). “Current trends in exports indicate it will surpass the target of USD 9 billio

Iran exported $644 million worth of textile products during the first eleven months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2012-February 18, 2013), IRNA reported. Textile exports grew by 24 percent compared to the same period in the past year. Machine-made floorings, clothing, and threads were the main exported products. In October, 2012, Iranian industry ministry official Mehdi Eslampanah said that regional countries as well as the South America are the main targets for Iranian t

The US government on Friday cut its forecast of global cotton inventory for the marketing year to end-July due to expectations of higher demand as China, home to the world''s No 1 textile industry, continues to bulk up its strategic stockpile of fibre. In a monthly crop report, the US Department of Agriculture reduced its estimate for the surplus to 81.74 million bales, down 120,000 bales from last month''s forecast. It was the second reduction since the season started on August 1. If the new

Associations’ presidents unanimously decide to shut down textile sector if the imposition sales tax was not withdrawn. Owners of textile mills have closed down at least 150,000 power looms in protest against the imposition of 2 per cent sales tax on the sector. On Saturday, Council of Loom Owners’ Association (CLOA) chairman Waheed Khalid Ramay said the textile associations’ presidents had unanimously decided to shut down the textile sector if the imposition sales tax was not withdrawn.

India's cotton imports could jump by two-thirds to over 2 million bales in 2012/13, a top industry official said, as a seasonal output slowdown and stock building push domestic prices higher in the world's second-largest producer. India exported cotton in the first part of the year to September 30, as demand was amply covered by production, but it will turn to imports towards the end of the harvest period as supplies start to wane and domestic prices rise. "Cotton imports may exceed the target

An exhibition of Peru’s pre-Columbian textiles belonging to the Paracas, Nazca, and Chancay cultures will be on display at Chile’s Palacio La Moneda Cultural Center from March 14-16. Andean Paracas Textile on display at Peru's Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History. The 10 Peruvian heritage objects will participate in the exhibition named “Textiles Latinoamericanos” (Latin American textiles) and it will showcase 13 collections from 8 countries of the region. The textiles that will b