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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]

Muslin saree was woven in Bangladesh by a group of researchers under a government project. The research team has woven six muslin sareesin 2020. It is expecting to launch the muslin saree in the market in the next two years. [49] See also [ edit ] 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. Mull is another kind of muslin. It is a soft, thin, and semitransparent material. The name is derived from Hindi "mal" which means "soft". Swiss mull is a type of which is finished with stiffening agents. [37] Decline under Company rule [ edit ]Giorgio Riello, Tirthankar Roy (2009). How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850. Brill Publishers. p.174. ISBN 9789047429975. Sangar, Pramod (1993). Growth of the English Trade Under the Mughals. ABS Publications. p.171. ISBN 978-81-7072-044-7. 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. Jamdani recognised as intangible cultural heritage by Unesco", The Daily Star, 5 December 2013 , retrieved 4 December 2013 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 ]

Gorvett, Zaria. "The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make". BBC Future. BBC . Retrieved 21 September 2022. Dey, Gouri (2015). "Textiles under Mughals" (PDF). Fashion and Designing under the Mughals (Akbar to Aurangzeb): A Historical Perspective (PhD). University of North Bengal. p.87 . Retrieved 29 June 2022. Cotton clothes: 1. Khasa per piece (than) – 3 rupiya to 15 muhr 2. Chautar per piece – 2 rupiya to 9 muhr 3. Malmal per piece – 4 rupiya 4. Tansukh per piece – 4 rupiya to 5 muhr A woman in fine Bengali muslin, "Muslim Lady Reclining" by Francesco Renaldi (1789) Woman's muslin dress c. 1855 Eaton, Richard M. (1996). The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760. University of California Press. pp.202–. ISBN 978-0-520-20507-9.Riello, Giorgio; Parthasarathi, Prasannan, eds. (2011). The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200–1850. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-969616-1. Samuel, T. John (2013). Many avatars: challenges, achievements and the future. [S.l.]: Friesenpress. ISBN 978-1-4602-2893-7. Pool, J. (1976). "Muslin gauze in intracranial vascular surgery. Technical note". Journal of Neurosurgery. 44 (1): 127–128. doi: 10.3171/jns.1976.44.1.0127. PMID 1244428. Abhay Kumar Singh (2006). Modern World System and Indian Proto-industrialization: Bengal 1650-1800, (Volume 1). Northern Book Centre. ISBN 9788172112011.

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. 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. 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. Gaius Petronius Arbiter (1st century AD Roman courtier and author of the Satyricon) described the transparent nature of the muslin cloth as below: [20]

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A descriptive and historical account of the cotton manufacture of Dacca, in Bengal. John Mortimer. 1851. Sinha, Narendra Krishna (1961). The Economic History of Bengal from Plassey to the Permanent Settlement. Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay. p.177. 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. 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. 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.