enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: fine muslin cloth
  2. etsy.com has been visited by 1M+ users in the past month

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Muslin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslin

    Very fine cotton cloth was made in Mosul in the 12th century and later. Arab traders carried it to Europe as a commodity, and enchanted Europeans called it muslin; since then the very fine and beautiful cotton cloth came to be known as muslin. In 1298 AD, Marco Polo described in his book The Travels that muslin is made in Mosul, Iraq. [11]

  3. Jamdani - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamdani

    Jamdani is a hand loom woven fabric made of cotton, which was historically referred to as muslin. The Jamdani weaving tradition is of Bengali origin. It is one of the most time and labor-intensive forms of hand loom weaving, and is considered one of the finest varieties of muslin, [6] and the most artistic textile of Bangladeshi weavers.

  4. Muslin trade in Bengal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslin_trade_in_Bengal

    A woman wearing fine Bengali muslin, c. 1789, by Francesco Renaldi. Muslin saree passing through a ring Shawl made of Muslin in the 18th century, woven in Sonargaon, Dhaka. Muslin, a Phuti carpus cotton fabric of plain weave, was historically hand woven in the areas of Dhaka and Sonargaon in Bangladesh and exported for many centuries. [1]

  5. Textile arts of Bangladesh - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_arts_of_Bangladesh

    Silver-embroidered muslin. The fine, transparent mulmul known as muslin in Europe manufactured by the weavers of Bengal was established as a commercial product almost 2000 years ago. Gangetic muslin is referred to by Greek and Roman writers. It is known from their writing that it was the most favored among the luxury goods imported from India.

  6. Textile - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile

    Fine muslin fabric variations from Dacca in Bengal: Characteristics Delicate muslin types Dacca, in the eastern Indian subcontinent, produced a wide range of handwoven and spun muslins. Baft Hawa, which means "woven air", Shabnam, which means "evening dew", and ab-i-ravan, which means "flowing water" are some poetic names for soft muslins. [40 ...

  7. Nainsook - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nainsook

    Nainsook is a soft, fine, lightweight form of muslin. [1] [2] Muslin encompasses a broad range of fabrics of varying weight and fineness, but is always a plain weave, cotton fabric. The word 'nainsook' is first documented in 1790, and derives from the Hindi word nainsukh, which literally means "eye's delight". [1]

  1. Ads

    related to: fine muslin cloth