The annual Ceylon Heritage Festival by the Rachel Raj Foundation and the Ministry of Industries had its inaugural launch with a fashion show dedicated to artisanal traditional textile crafts at the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo. The event served as the launch pad for the new ‘Heritage Hands’ label, a 100% Sri Lankan-crafted clothing and accessory brand endorsed by the Industrial Development Board. The Ceylon Heritage Festival Fashion Show’s focus was the role of Sri Lanka’s indigenous textile crafts in modern design palettes with the launch of the Heritage Hands label. The label incorporated pieces where traditional crafts, such as dumbara weaving, beeralu lace, bamboo and palmyra fibre fabric, crochet, handloom and batik printing were the mainstay of the collection. The show also featured pieces designed by the graduates of Moratuwa University’s Fashion Textile Engineering department.
