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Nearly 200 years ago, Dhaka muslin was the most valuable fabric on the planet. Then it was lost altogether. How did this happen? And can we bring it back?


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Great story! ThumbsUp


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Thank you for posting that. Fascinating.
Have been involved in the cotton business since birth.
I should send that to the farmers that grow cotton on my land and tell him he should grow some of that.
I think I would get "Huh?" for an answer.


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We have a good friend who was originally from Bangladesh; he came to the US as an adult in the late 1950s. I sent him the article....

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About the story of muslin, of course I knew about it. The British Raj killed the local industry. The Colonial Brit's East India Company wanted to export their own textiles from England and they didn't want Bengali muslin, which was highly sought after in European markets, competing with them.

Muslin was such a fine fabric that a cloth, the size of a sari, could be folded into an empty matchbox.


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Interesting stuff!


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That was really interesting, thanks!

I’ve never spun cotton, only wool. And never very thin, except by accident. They call it a drop spindle for a reason. D’oh!


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