Royal Textile Academy

09/03/2026

Her Majesty the Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck, Royal Patron of RENEW and Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), graciously commenced a High-Level Advocacy Program from 7th-12th March 2026, beginning in Haa Dzongkhag with an audience granted to members of the Multi-Sectoral Task Force-Community Based Support System (MSTF-CBSS).

Through this High-Level Advocacy, Her Majesty continues her unwavering commitment to championing the well-being of Bhutanese communities by bringing national attention to critical public health priorities and pressing social issues, including gender-based violence, the protection of women and children, and the strengthening of community support systems. During the interaction, Her Majesty encouraged MSTF-CBSS volunteers to remain steadfast in their service and to continue strengthening grassroots support networks that play a vital role in protecting families and communities.

Repost from the RENEW's Page

08/03/2026

Happy International Women’s Day!

The RTA family wishes all the incredible women in our community a day full of appreciation and joy. Thank you for your strength, your leadership, and everything you do to move us forward.

Let's celebrate the women who inspire us today and every day!

25/02/2026

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐂)

The entry submission for the 24th National Design and Art Competition (NDAC) is starting from 27th February and will remain open until the 16th March, 2026. We invite talented individuals in the following categories:
1. Weaving - Kira
2. Weaving - Gho
3. Embroidery
4. Wood Carving
5. Traditional Painting
6. Sculpture

To complete your submission, please ensure you bring the following items along with your artwork:
1. ID Card Photocopy
2. Two Legal Stamps
3. Traditional Painting should be accompanied by a short description of the painting

Ensure that your submissions are delivered to the Royal Textile Academy during office hours before the deadline on 16 March, 2026. Your participation is crucial in transforming this event into a showcase of diverse and remarkable artistic talents.

For more details please contact 77298613/17608899.

20/02/2026

༉ ཆོས་རྒྱལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་པ་ ༧ དཔལ་མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་ལུ་ ང་བཅས་རྒྱལ་འཛིན་ཐགས་རིགས་སློབ་སྡེའི་བཀོད་ཚོགས་དང་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་ དེ་ལས་ ལས་བྱེདཔ་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ མི་དབང་མཆོག་ལུ་ འཁྲུངས་སྐར་བཀྲིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ་ནི་དང་ མི་དབང་མཆོག་མཛད་འཕྲིན་དར་ཞིང་རྒྱས་་་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་དགོངས་བཞེད་ཚུ་འབད་མེད་ལྷུན་གྱི་འགྲུབ་པར་ཤོག་ཅིག་ཟེར་བའི་སྨོན་ཚིག་ཕུལ་ནི་ཨིན།
On the most joyous and auspicious occasion of the Birth Anniversary of His Majesty The Druk Gyalpo, the Board of Trustees, Management, and Staff of the Royal Textile Academy humbly offer our heartfelt Tashi Delek.་We pray that His Majesty’s noble endeavours continue to flourish and that all His sacred aspirations be spontaneously fulfilled.

PALDEN DRUKPA GYALO! 🇧🇹

17/02/2026

༄༅། །རང་ལུགས་གནམ་ལོ་ མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ གསར་དུ་ཚེས་པའི་ ལོ་གསར་གྱི་ཉིནམ་འདི་ལུ་ བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ་ནི་ཨིན་ལགས།
Wishing everyone a joyful, peaceful, and prosperous Fire Horse Year. Happy Losar! 🎉

16/02/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT

13/02/2026

12/02/2026

𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐂)

The Royal Textile Academy in collaboration with the Museum Division, Department of Culture and Dzongkha Development under Ministry of Home Affairs, is pleased to announce the 24th National Design and Art Competition (NDAC).

The National Design and Art Competition is an annual event organized to encourage creativity, innovation and excellence in Bhutan’s traditional arts and crafts. The competition is conducted with funding support from the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB) and Mr. & Mrs. Alan Bickell.

The top three winners in each category will be awarded cash prizes as follows:
First Prize: Nu. 1,20,000/-
Second Prize: Nu. 65,000/-
Third Prize: Nu. 32,500/-

In addition to the cash prizes, the winners will be awarded Certificates from the Royal Patron, Her Majesty Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck.

The collection of entries for the competition will be open from 27 February to 16 March 2026. Interested participants are encouraged to submit their best works within the stipulated timeline and contribute to the preservation and promotion of Bhutan’s rich artistic and cultural heritage.

For more details please contact 77298613/17608899.

10/02/2026

04/02/2026

༊ དཔལ་མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་སྲས་འཇིགས་མེད་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་ དགུང་ལོ་ ༡༠ བཞེས་པའི་དུས་ཆེན་ཁྱད་པར་ཅན་ལུ་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་འཛིན་ཐགས་རིགས་སློབ་སྡེའི་ བཀོད་ཚོགས་དང་འཛིན་སྐྱོངས་ དེ་ལས་ ལས་བྱེདཔ་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་སྲས་མཆོག་ལུ་ བཀྲིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ་ནི་ཨིན་ལགས།

On this joyous occasion, the Board, Management, and Staff of the Royal Textile Academy join the nation in celebrating the 10th Birth Anniversary of our beloved Crown Prince, His Royal Highness Gyalsey Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck. We offer our heartfelt prayers for His Royal Highness Gyalsey’s good health, happiness, and long life.

Long Live His Royal Highness The Gyalsey!

01/02/2026

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐭𝐬𝐞

The Royal Textile Academy successfully concluded a 15-day Rural Empowerment Initiative in Pemaling, Samtse, on 31st January 2026. The initiative was implemented under RTA’s flagship program, “Weaving into the Future.”

The workshop offered hands-on training in natural dyeing, eco-printing, tie-dye techniques, wool felting using waste wool, and creative design development through mood boards and pattern making. Sessions on business models and entrepreneurship were also conducted, with the aim of strengthening traditional skills while exploring innovative and sustainable practices.

RTA firmly believes that collective effort is essential to strengthening the traditional textile sector. In line with this vision, a cluster community was formed to promote collective production, support sustainable livelihoods, and enhance coordination among artisans.

This initiative is funded by Government of India through GoI-PTA support for social sector.

29/01/2026

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On 26th January, 2026, Her Majesty Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck, Royal Patron and president of the Gyalyum Charitable Trust, graced the first Board Meeting of 2026 🙏🏼