Sujal Kumar
Founder · CEO
Vadodara, Gujarat
Built the AI core — translating loom physics into computer vision.
Our Story · MSU Baroda
Born in a loom room. Built for every mill.
FabricLens started where the noise of a rapier loom meets the hush of a textile lab — at the Faculty of Technology and Engineering, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda.
Built on the floor, not in a boardroom.
FabricLens was not built by a software house. It was built by textile engineers watching inspectors miss bow, skew, and GSM drift — not because they did not care, but because the tools on the karkhana floor had not changed in fifty years.
We came home from FTE's weaving labs and asked the question every mill has asked at some point: why does the software not understand the loom? Crimp formulas, reed counts, peg-plans — these are not nouns to a generic computer-vision pipeline. They are the grammar of how Indian mills think.
So we built the bridge ourselves. Models that read a fabric photograph the way a mill master reads it. Tools that respect the way Indian mills actually weave — from handloom to rapier, from khadi to jacquard.
70K+
Training images of Indian fabric
95%
Defect-detection accuracy
12
Weave structures supported
0
New hardware required
Lineage
From the charkha to the rapier.
Indian textiles have always been engineering. The charkha is a piece of machinery as carefully tuned as any modern loom — drive wheel, flyer, bobbin, drive cord, cotton sliver, all in working rhythm. Khadi was not nostalgia. It was a supply chain.
FabricLens stands in that lineage. We are not trying to replace the master weaver, the dyer, or the karigar. We are giving the same kind of attention — precise, mechanical, patient — to the parts of the work that have outgrown the human eye.
— A small team in Baroda.
From frustration to platform.
Milestones earned on loom floors, not in boardrooms.
2024
The frustration
Watching inspectors miss defects on campus pilot looms. The tooling was analog, fatiguing, and decades behind — the pencil and ruler still in use.
June 2025
Prototype
Built the first FFT-based analyzer inside FTE's weaving labs. Beat manual inspection on controlled samples on the very first run.
- FFT analysis pipeline
- EPI / PPI detection from a single photograph
- 95%+ accuracy versus a manual baseline
September 2025
Industrial run
Retrofitted an aging inspection machine without halting production. First real-world validation on a working karkhana — zero hardware modifications required.
- Live mill deployment
- Zero hardware modification
Today
A platform, live.
A virtual lab for mills, R&D labs, and academic partners across India — analyzer, jacquard, weave designer, AI generator, marketplace.
- Nine focused tools, one platform
- Jacquard Designer + Virtual Lab
- Patent pending
The people behind FabricLens.
Textile engineers who have lived the problem firsthand — on loom floors, not in boardrooms.
Dhruv Mulherkar
Co-Founder · COO
Vadodara, Gujarat
Bridges lab prototypes and production reality — making sure the work lands on the mill floor.
Binit Pandey
Chief Marketing Officer
Vadodara, Gujarat
Translates complex AI into narratives every mill owner understands.
Akshat Patil
Industrial Systems Lead
Vadodara, Gujarat
Deep expertise in textile machinery and mill workflows — turning shop-floor challenges into scalable solutions.
Come spin with us.
We are always looking for textile engineers, designers, and karigars who have lived the problem — and want to build the tools they wished they had on the floor.