D. R. Textiles

D. R. Textiles is right there on 5/7 S. D. College Road. We are directly opposite the Punjab National Bank, which is a good landmark because everyone knows where that is. The road gets very busy with students from the college walking past all the time. Our shop is mostly filled with rolls of cloth and different fabrics stacked up to the ceiling. It smells like fresh cotton and dye inside. We have a couple of large tables where we can roll out the fabric to show people how it looks. The floor is concrete and can get a bit cold in the winter months. Because we are opposite the bank, there are always cars and scooters parked out front, making it a bit tight to get through the door. We spend most of the day measuring out meters of cloth and cutting them with these big heavy scissors that we’ve had for years. Sometimes the sunlight comes in through the front window and fades the labels on the fabric rolls, so we try to keep the shutters halfway down in the heat of the afternoon. It is a straightforward business and we have been at this location for a good while. People from the college or the bank often pop in just to see what new stock arrived on the truck that morning. It’s a lot of lifting and moving heavy rolls around, but we are used to it by now. We close up when the bank workers head home.