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It became highly popular in 18th-century France and eventually spread across much of the Western world. Dhaka muslin was first showcased in the UK at The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851. [14] Manufacturing process [ edit ] King, Brenda M. (3 September 2005). Silk and Empire. Manchester University Press. pp.61, xvi. ISBN 978-0-7190-6700-6. Muslin of uncommonly delicate handspun yarn was handwoven in the Bengal region of South Asia and imported into Europe for much of the 17th and early 18th centuries. [3] [6] [7] [8] When sewing clothing, a dressmaker may test the fit of a garment by using muslin fabric to make a test-model before cutting pieces from more expensive fabric to make the final product, thereby avoiding potential costly mistakes. In the United States, these test-models are themselves sometimes referred to as "muslins,” the process is called "making a muslin," and "muslin" has become the generic term for any test- or fitting garment, regardless of the fabric it is made from. a b Bolts, William (1772). Considerations on India affairs: particularly respecting the present state of Bengal and its dependencies. Printed for J. Almon. pp.194–195.

Jamdani recognised as intangible cultural heritage by Unesco", The Daily Star, 5 December 2013 , retrieved 4 December 2013 A descriptive and historical account of the cotton manufacture of Dacca, in Bengal. John Mortimer. 1851. Weibel, Adèle Coulin (1952). Two thousand years of textiles; the figured textiles of Europe and the Near East. Internet Archive. New York, Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books. p.54. Burnell, A. C.; Yule, Henry (24 October 2018). Hobson-Jobson: Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words And Phrases. Routledge. p.706. ISBN 978-1-136-60331-0. Perlin, Frank (1983). "Proto-industrialization and Pre-colonial South Asia". Past & Present. 98 (1): 30–95. doi: 10.1093/past/98.1.30. JSTOR 650688.Marshall, P. J. (1988). India and Indonesia during the Ancien Regime. E.J. Brill. p.90. ISBN 978-90-04-08365-3. Gorvett, Zaria. "The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make". BBC Future. BBC . Retrieved 21 September 2022. During the period of Company rule, the East India Company imported British-produced cloth into the Indian subcontinent, but became unable to compete with the local muslin industry. The Company administration initiated several policies in an attempt to suppress the muslin industry, and muslin production subsequently experienced a period of decline. It has been alleged that in some instances Indian weavers were rounded up and their thumbs chopped off, although this has been refuted by historians as a misreading of a report by William Bolts from 1772. [38] [39] [40] The quality, finesse and production volume of Bengali muslin declined as a result of these policies, continuing when India transitioned from Company rule to British Crown control. [38] [41] Uses [ edit ] Dressmaking and sewing [ edit ] In Advantages of wearing Muslin Dresses! (1802), James Gillray satirically pointed out a hazard of untreated muslin: its flammability. Bhattacharya, Ranjit Kumar; Chakrabarti, S. B. (2002). Indian Artisans: Social Institutions and Cultural Values. Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India, Ministry of Culture, Youth Affairs and Sports, Department of Culture. p.87. ISBN 978-81-85579-56-6.

Thompson, Eliza Bailey (1922). Cotton and linen. New York: Ronald. p.70 – via University of California Libraries.Spinning and weaving: For extra humidity they used to weave during the rainy season for elasticity in the yarns and to avoid breakages. The process was so sluggish that it could take over five months to weave one piece of muslin. [16] Sangar, Pramod (1993). Growth of the English Trade Under the Mughals. ABS Publications. p.171. ISBN 978-81-7072-044-7. In the early days of silent film-making, and until the late 1910s, movie studios did not have the elaborate lights needed to illuminate indoor sets, so most interior scenes were sets built outdoors with large pieces of muslin hanging overhead to diffuse sunlight. Ashmore, Sonia (1 October 2018). "Handcraft as luxury in Bangladesh: Weaving jamdani in the twenty-first century". International Journal of Fashion Studies. 5 (2): 389–397. doi: 10.1386/infs.5.2.389_7. S2CID 166980808.

Ginning: For removing trash and cleaning and combing the fibers and making them parallel ready for spinning a boalee (upper jaw of a catfish) was used.Gaius Petronius Arbiter (1st century AD Roman courtier and author of the Satyricon) described the transparent nature of the muslin cloth as below: [20] Giorgio Riello, Tirthankar Roy (2009). How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850. Brill Publishers. p.174. ISBN 9789047429975. Abhay Kumar Singh (2006). Modern World System and Indian Proto-industrialization: Bengal 1650-1800, (Volume 1). Northern Book Centre. ISBN 9788172112011. Eaton, Richard Maxwell (1996). The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760. University of California Press. p.202. ISBN 978-0-520-20507-9.

Certain delicate muslins were given poetic names such as Baft Hawa ("woven air"), Shabnam ("evening dew"), and āb-i-ravān ("flowing water"). The latter name refers to a fine and transparent variety of fine muslin from Dacca. [22] The fabric's characteristics are summed up in its name. [23] [24] Types [ edit ] Jamdani recognised as intangible cultural heritage by Unesco". The Daily Star. 5 December 2013 . Retrieved 5 December 2013. It also holds dyes well. It is often used to create nighttime scenes because when dyed, it often gets a wavy look with the color varying slightly, such that it resembles a night sky. Muslin shrinks after it is painted or sprayed with water, which is desirable in some common techniques such as soft-covered flats.

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and varieties of mulmul ( Mulboos khas, Jhuna, Sarkar ali, Sarbati, Tarindam) [33] were among the most delicate cotton muslins produced in the Indian subcontinent. [34] [35] [36] Edwards, Michael (June 1976). Growth of the British Cotton Trade 1780–1815. Augustus M Kelley Pubs. p.37. ISBN 0-678-06775-9.