Nagaland Textile Industry has Far Evolved

Nagaland textile industry has far evolved with time in quality, quantity and design with fast adaptation to international style and technology to give an edge look to hand-loom products.

Textile pattern of Nagaland are classy and dynamic where with mix of ultra design has added more flavor to it and head turning impact. Be it in India or abroad Nagaland textile pattern has won stylist’s admiration.

Nagaland’s indigenous tribe has passed age old fascinating patterns in most evaluating designs to endure with the current trend. Most of its patterns are inspired from all aspects of life like nature, warfare, victory, social position and gender. 

But now more research goes into to the development of standard design with mix of ethnic touch to retain Naga identity into it whether be it local, regional, national or global products. In contradict to lavish promo of Nagaland textile the native people also fears that in the race of growing fashion industry they might lose intellectual property rights of originality in pattern development. 

Ao Naga textile pattern of Nagaland is quite popular due to its striking micro designs with valuable meaning. Pattern of Nagaland textile is a vast study as its layouts were made in precise and detail manner reflecting about nature and human act either by symbols or words. Interestingly weavers of Nagaland have been found to have even included the language of Naga in its textile.

History reflects the vast evaluation and changes in Naga textile pattern with advancement of time where the native weavers contributed a lot to preserve their indigenous pattern. Visually there is much difference with former and current textile pattern designs. Intro of British colonial and Christianity have dramatically influenced the Naga culture and lifestyle within the span of sixty years. Emerge of 20^th century saw ultra changes in Naga traditional patterns as with India’s independence, baptism and British administration had influenced the tribe to assimilate the symbols derived from evident changes of life in textile designing.