Projects & Clusters

A national map of
textile clusters.

HFMN documents Nepal's textile geography — cluster and craft region maps for silk, handloom, wool, natural fibers and eco-tourism sites — building the national inventory of the sector.

Silk Handloom Wool Allo Hemp Dye Training Community
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Mulberry nursery, Tokha
The Story

A map drawn one cooperative at a time.

The cluster map is not a plan drawn in a boardroom. It's an inventory we're building on the ground — village by village, cooperative by cooperative — of where Nepal's textile geography is already alive and where it's ready to be activated.

The pilots on the map below are our first anchors. Each one becomes a 10,000-ropani cluster complete with mulberry, farmer groups, cocoon collection, reeling, weaving and training — a rural silk economy in miniature.

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National framework
The Living Atlas

Six typologies, one country.

18 pilot points · 18 pilot points · 7 provinces · 6 typologies
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Tokha Mulberry Nursery
Silk nursery — Kathmandu
Silk clusters
27.749° N · 85.328° E

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Pilot register · 18 sites · 18 sites
Districts on the register
The national map

Seven provinces, six cluster typologies.

From high-altitude wool districts to mulberry corridors — one national inventory of Nepal's textile geography.

Six Typologies

The cluster grammar, deck of six.

Silk clusters (planned & active)
9.1

Silk clusters (planned & active)

Hill and Terai belts across all seven provinces.

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Handloom production hubs
9.2

Handloom production hubs

Existing weaving communities integrated into national quality standards.

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Natural fiber zones
9.3

Natural fiber zones

Allo, hemp, bamboo and banana collection & processing corridors.

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Wool clusters
9.4

Wool clusters

High-altitude districts producing indigenous wool for blended textiles.

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Model demonstration centers
9.5

Model demonstration centers

Training, R&D and demonstration sites for producer communities.

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Silk eco-tourism sites
9.6

Silk eco-tourism sites

Farm-to-loom experiential circuits linked with rural tourism.

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Cluster Framework

Six steps, one operating pattern.

  1. 01
    Producer mobilization
  2. 02
    Cooperative development
  3. 03
    Infrastructure & processing units
  4. 04
    Training and demonstration
  5. 05
    Quality and traceability
  6. 06
    Market and export linkage
Anatomy of a Cluster

A village, as an operating unit.

Six shared units — hover a photo or a number to see what each one does. Every HFMN cluster is built from these six components.

Rearing shed
Upstream · raw material
Rearing shed

Silk-worm rearing houses close to mulberry blocks — where the cocoon crop begins.

Six components
In Practice

The cluster, as an operating unit.

Everything HFMN does — from a mulberry seedling to a finished bolt of cloth — is stewarded by a real cooperative, a real weaver and a real ledger. This is a snapshot.
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Charter

Cluster registration

Every cluster starts with a signed charter — producers, cooperative, local government and HFMN — that defines who does what and who gets paid when.

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Infrastructure

Shared units

Rearing sheds, dye-houses, spinning units and finishing rooms are built as shared cooperative assets, not private capex.

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Traceability

Batch to buyer

Every batch leaves a cluster with a lot number the buyer can resolve back to a village, a cooperative and a producer group.

“ A cluster is what a village becomes when it decides to sell together.
— HFMN cluster coordinator, 2026