The story
Farrukhabad has long been a textile printing town, where printers use carved wooden blocks and later screens to print fabric, much of it for export. Its printers supply stoles, scarves and furnishing fabric to exporters in Delhi and other centres. Farrukhabad prints have a GI tag, and textile printing and zari-zardozi are the district's ODOP products.
In numbers
No published source we could open prints current numbers for this cluster.
GI tag
- Farrukhabad PrintsApplication no. GI Application No. 234; Registration No. 191GI Registry, IP India - Application 234: Farrukhabad Prints
Ways in for a newcomer
- Block printing job work for exporters and designers
- Natural-dye and eco-print collections
- Selling printed stoles and home textiles online
- Supplying printing blocks, screens and dyes
Problems the cluster faces
- Effluent from dyeing and printing
- Digital printing replacing hand work
- Dependence on exporters for orders
- Rising dye and fabric costs
Businesses to start here
Hand Block Printing Unit (Printed Suits) →Textile Printing (Screen Printing on Fabric) →Textile Screen Printing Unit (Sarees and Fabrics) →Shawls, Stoles, Scarves and Wraps →Bed Linen Stitching Unit (Bed Sheets and Pillow Covers) →