Does this firm exist, and who runs it?
You have a name and a phone number somebody passed along. You do not know where the shop is, what it really deals in, or whether anyone has bought from it before.
The register of the Indian textile trade
Know who you buy from.And who you sell to.
किससे ख़रीद रहे हैं, किसे बेच रहे हैं — पहले जान लीजिए।
Mills, wholesalers, traders, exporters, job workers and agents — searchable by product, composition and city. Every listing says what has been checked on it, and what has not.
- Free to searchFor buyers and sellers, always.
- Contact on sign-inNumbers open to members, not to scrapers.
- Starting in VaranasiOpening city by city from there.
The problem
A number in a forwarded message is not a business. It is a guess.
Is the order real, and will the money come?
A new buyer calls with a big order. Before you dispatch, you want to know the firm is on record somewhere, with a name and an address that will still be there.
The register puts a name, a place and a record behind the number — from both ends of the trade.
How it works
Three steps, and no middleman in any of them.
- 1
Search
By product, composition, city or firm name. Filter by role — manufacturer, wholesaler, exporter and the rest.
- 2
Read the listing
Who they are, what they deal in, where they sit, and what has not been checked yet.
- 3
Call or WhatsApp
Sign in and the number opens. Free, with no limit on how many firms you look up.
On a listing
A listing is worth exactly what you can check on it.
So here is everything one holds — including the part that is still empty.
- 01Who they are
- The firm's name, its role, and the person who represents it — someone who can be asked.
- 02What they deal in
- The vertical, the product and the composition. Saree or shirting, cotton or viscose.
- 03Where they are
- City, market and lane. In this trade an address is the gali and the building.
- 04How to reach them
- A phone number you can press, and WhatsApp where the firm gave one.
- 05What is not checked yet
- No verification has run and no reviews are written. The listing says so instead of hiding it.
Who is on it
Eight roles. One register.
आठ भूमिकाएँ। एक रजिस्टर।
ManufacturerMills, looms and the people who make the cloth.→WholesalerMoves it in bulk, from the ones who make it to the ones who sell it.→TraderBuys and sells on its own account, in the market.→RetailerSells to the person who will wear it.→ExporterShips it out, and deals with everything that entails.→Job workerDyeing, printing, embroidery, finishing — on contract.→OnlineSells over a marketplace or a storefront of its own.→CommunityAssociations and trade bodies, filed separately.→
Reviews
A directory tells you a firm exists. This one tells you how it deals.
Paid on time. Quality matched what was shown. Would deal with them again. The questions the trade already asks over the phone — on the record, against a firm that can answer back.
- Anyone signed in can read them. A review is only worth writing if the trade can see it.
- Writing one needs a listing of your own. Reviews come from firms, not from accounts.
- It carries your name. A review nobody answers for is the easiest thing to fake.
- None have been written yet. The register is new, and this page will not pretend otherwise.
Where
The trade runs city to city. So will the register.
These are where the trade is, not where the register is yet. It opens one city at a time, and every listing says which city it is filed in — so a search never implies a reach the register does not have.
- VaranasiवाराणसीOpen now
- Suratસુરત
- Tiruppurதிருப்பூர்
- Ludhianaਲੁਧਿਆਣਾ
- Erodeஈரோடு
- Bhilwaraभीलवाड़ा
- Panipatपानीपत
- Ahmedabadઅમદાવાદ
- Bhiwandiभिवंडी
- Coimbatoreகோயம்புத்தூர்
- Jaipurजयपुर
- Kolkataকলকাতা
- Ichalkaranjiइचलकरंजी
- Solapurसोलापूर
- Kanchipuramகாஞ்சிபுரம்
- Bhadohiभदोही
- Delhiदिल्ली
- Mumbaiमुंबई
The Banarasi Vastra Udyog Association · बनारसी वस्त्र उद्योग एसोसिएशन
Every trade already keeps a register. It is just on paper.
An association's roll is the most carefully kept list in any Indian trade, and it is almost always a ledger in an office. The Banarasi Vastra Udyog Association's became searchable — 469 firms, filed by hand — and it is where this register starts. The roll stays theirs: it opens to firms on the register, not to anyone who signs up.