Author Archives: Abid Omar

About Abid Omar

Abid Omar founded Quack! Online in August 2003 as a forum where TIP students, alumni, faculty and management could be heard.

TIP’s Innovative Entrepreneurs

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Abid Omar

Sidrah Nadeem, innovative entrepreneur extraordinaire, has all men in Pakistan by the neck, literally. With her tie boutique All Tied Up, Sidrah’s hand-woven and hand-stitched silk ties have shaken up the Pakistani male fashion sense. The video above shows Sidrah … Continue reading →

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Textiles inspired by nature, by science and by colour-changing dyestuff

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Abid Omar

A designer who engineers fashion from daydreams, has come up with textiles inspired by nature (biomimetic structure), by science (Fibonacci number pattern knitting), and one with a clever application of dyestuff that changes colour dependent on temperature. Have TIP design … Continue reading →

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Karachi Fashion Week backstage by TIP students

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Abid Omar

The chock-a-block Karachi Fashion Week (KFW) successfully entered into its third day, after bagging a huge response from the international buyers here on Saturday. The fashion presentations started with a slight delay, and contrary to the previous day, the hall … Continue reading →

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How Madras is Made

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Abid Omar

To weave the highest-quality madras, we went to a small village in Tamil Nadu in Southeast India, the birthplace of madras, that’s been producing the fabric for over 100 years. Not the easiest route, but the one that would make … Continue reading →

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TIP misses the mark

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Abid Omar

QS World University Rankings has released their 2011 Asian University Rankings Results. The Textile Institute of Pakistan did not make the list. Three other Pakistani universities did: 84. National University of Sciences And Technology (NUST), 52.90 138. University of Karachi, … Continue reading →

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TED Talks: Silk, the ancient material of the future

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Abid Omar

Fiorenzo Omenetto shares 20+ astonishing new uses for silk, one of nature’s most elegant materials — in transmitting light, improving sustainability, adding strength and making medical leaps and bounds. On stage, he shows a few intriguing items made of the … Continue reading →

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Textile factory set to music

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Abid Omar

The motions of a Brazilian textile plant set to a classical music soundtrack. Valsa das Máquinas, Paramount Têxteis from grafikonstruct on Vimeo.

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