David Brookstein, dean of the textiles school at Philadelphia University, observes that "America and Europe's strength is in intellectual property.
Shrirampur has a library, a hospital, the Government Weaving Institute, and a textile technology school.
Here at the Berlin branch, which opened three years ago in a former East Berlin textile design school, another ingredient enhanced the restorative mix: art.
"In five or seven years, I envisage an industry functioning in a more organized manner, starting from a situation where designers have more access to textiles, more schools and training," Ms. Akerele said.
He was one of only two black students at a high school for textile studies in the Chelsea section and one of only a few at the Cooper Union School of Art, to which he had won a scholarship to study art and architecture.
Ronelle Mair, who teaches textiles at Waxerley girls' school in Peckham, says: "We had 13 girls involved in the mural.
One reason for the difference between Italy and Britain, according to David Dixon and Alex Gray, lecturers at Leeds University's school of textiles, is that the British clothing market has been dominated by big retailers.
There is a technical school for textiles, as well as the University of Twente (1961), and Enschede is the triennial meeting place of De Kogge, an association of Dutch, Flemish, and German writers.
Kish went to Pratt Institute for her first year of college, but ultimately finished her schooling in textile design at the Fashion Institute for Technology in New York.
The Lowell campus, previously known as the University of Lowell, was founded as two separate institutions a teacher-training school and a textile school in 1894 95.
He was educated at Kibworth Beauchamp grammar school, then studied textile design at Loughborough University, where he met his future wife, Jan Reid.
