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“I am expecting better business, especially if export orders pick up with the GI tag. ‘No’ for family trade’It takes two days labour by two expert craftsmen to create a 6 feet by 9 feet carpet that sells for Rs. But now, with the GI tag, we will be able to market our products on our own, leading to better profits,” says Adepu Ramesh of Kothawada in Warangal, a crafts-centred location in the city. more-inThere’s a ripple of excitement and sliver of hope in Warangal's artisan community as word spreads on the Geographical Indication certificate given on March 28 by the Chennai-based GI Registry for Warangal dhurries. Interestingly, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, two carpets woven in silk were sent from Warangal..