Dispatches from
the field.
Cluster launches, conference editions, producer stories and sector announcements from HFMN and its partners.
A field notebook, kept in public.
The pages that follow are our field notebook, kept in public. Every entry began somewhere real — a mulberry hillside, a cooperative meeting, a dye pot on the boil, a conference hall in Kathmandu — and made its way here because it moved the work forward for someone in the sector.
We publish plainly and slowly. If you want the operational shape of Nepal's textile revival, this is where you read it week by week.
All dispatches, in order.
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Preparations for the annual National Silk Conference
The next edition brings together government, cooperatives, banks and international partners around Nepal's silk revival.
Read more →10,000 Ropani cluster planning underway
HFMN teams are mapping land, cooperatives and processing infrastructure across pilot districts.
Read more →Weaver cooperative onboarding open
Handloom producers can register under HFMN's national quality and market framework.
Read more →Natural dye plant survey continues
A multi-district survey of dye plants and community knowledge is producing Nepal's botanical colour library.
Read more →UTCN opens export desk briefing for members
The commercial arm of the ecosystem opens quarterly briefings for producers on export documentation, buyer readiness and Nepal-origin branding.
Read more →High-altitude wool cluster pilot in Mustang
A pilot cluster in Mustang begins working with herders on grading, washing and spinning indigenous wool.
Read more →The HFMN handloom quality mark launches
A national quality mark for handloom fabric — traceable from fibre to finished product — is now available to member cooperatives.
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