The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has launched, 'Handmade for the 21st Century: Safeguarding Traditional Indian Textile', a list of 50 iconic Indian heritage textiles.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has launched, 'Handmade for the 21st Century: Safeguarding Traditional Indian Textile', a list of 50 iconic Indian heritage textiles. Some of the textiles that made the cut include Toda embroidery and Sungadi from Tamil Nadu, Himroo weaves from Hyderabad and Bandha tie and dye weaving from Sambalpur in Odisha. Some of the iconic handcrafted textiles documented from north India are Khes from Panipat, Chamba rumals from Himachal Pradesh, Thigma or wool tie and dye from Ladakh and Awadh Jamdani from Varanasi. From the south, Ilkal and Lambadi or Banjara embroidery from Karnataka and Sikalnayakanpet Kalamkari from Thanjavur have been included.

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