What Is Muslin Fabric?| The Story Of Dhaka Muslin!!

Описание: The Dhaka Muslin was so light and soft that according to some rumours the cloth was woven by mermaids, fairies and even ghosts. Some even said that it was done underwater.

It was all going so well but then the British showed up. The East India Company started meddling with the delicate process of manufacturing Dhaka Muslin in the late 18th Century. 

The company had then completely replaced the region’s usual customers with those from the British Empire and started to control the whole trade.

They made it hard for the industry, pressurising the weavers to produce higher volumes of the fabric at lower prices, which was not possible given the delicate and elaborate process needed to produce the Muslin.

As weavers struggled to keep up with these demands, they fell into debt. The weavers were paid for the cloth in advance, however, if the finished fabric was not considered to be up to the required standard, they would have to pay it all back to the company. The poor weavers couldn’t keep up with these debt repayments

As war, poverty, and earthquakes became frequent in the region, some weavers switched to making lower-quality cotton fabrics, while others became full-time farmers. As a result, the whole enterprise collapsed.

With generations passing, the knowledge and skill of how to make Dhaka Muslin was also forgotten. With no one to spin the cloud-like silky threads, the Phuti Karpas plant, which had always been hard to tame, wasn’t cultivated anymore.

As a result, the plant disappeared into wild obscurity along with the legend of the loom. 


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