Institute of Handloom and Textile Tehnology (IHTT) an Institute set up by the Kerala state Government (south India) for the Development of Hand loom Industry. IHTT conducts programmes for modernized technical education in hand loom and textile technology. It is also the agency for detailing Central/State Governments developmental programmes to the grass root level.
Institute of Handloom and Textile Technology is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Industries, Government of Kerala and the nodal agency in the State for giving input of Science and Technology to the traditional Handloom Textile Industry. The Institute was established and registered under the Societies Registration Act of 1860 in the year 1987.
The Governing body of the Institute consists of 13 members from different Government, Public sector and Private Organizations nominated by Government of Kerala.
The Institute has a premises of 4.13 acres (16,700 m2) of land and a building capacity of 3804 square meters on the National Highway 17 from Kannur to Thalassery at Kizhunna, Thottada, 8 km away from District Headquarters, Kannur.
Famous quotes containing the words institute, textile and/or technology:
“Whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it’s foundation on such principles & organising it’s powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The textile and needlework arts of the world, primarily because they have been the work of women have been especially written out of art history. It is a male idea that to be “high” and “fine” both women and art should be beautiful, but not useful or functional.”
—Patricia Mainardi (b. 1942)
“The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)