Princess and queens asking their beloved for fabric so fine that it would pass through their rings may be part of lore but the soft, light and almost transparent muslin, a handwoven fabric whose worth ...

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 ...

On a golden summer morning in Rupganj, Narayanganj, the sound of handlooms echoes from tin-roofed sheds nestled amid winding village paths and open fields. Inside, women and men sit in quiet focus, ...

The subject of this paper is the old muslin industry of Dacca [Dhaka] and its neighborhood. I shall not deal in this article with the muslins produced here with British yarn. Comparatively speaking, ...