Textile hub Bangladesh revives muslin, the forgotten elite fabric
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Loading... - Bharosa Akter
- 10 Mar 2022
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Flowing garments woven from the cloth were worn by Mughal rulers before the fabric enchanted European aristocrats.
With wooden spinning wheels and hand-drawn looms, Bangladesh is painstakingly resurrecting a fabric once worn by Mughal emperors, Marie Antoinette and Jane Austen, but long thought forever lost to history.
Dhaka muslin was stitched from threads so fine that popular folklore in European parlours held that a change in the light or a sudden rain shower would render its wearer apparently naked.
The textile once brought magnificent riches to the lands where it was spun.
But to revive it, botanists had to hunt halfway across the world and back for a plant believed gone from the face of the earth. Read More...
