UP women turn a water-clogging weed taken from village ponds into handmade dresses for Lakmé Fashion Week,

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• Women in Biskohar, a town in Uttar Pradesh's Siddharthnagar district, are learning to turn dried water hyacinth into handcrafted products.
• Designer Anurag Gupta showcased designs featuring hand-spun weaves made from the plant's fibres at Lakmé Fashion Week.