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, ...

Imagine a saree that can pass through a finger ring or fit into a box of matches. This is the story of the famed muslin of ...

The only thing we want to be sleeping in right ...

Nearly two centuries ago, Dhaka's Muslin was the finest fabric on the planet. Then colonization happened, and it just disappeared. For over 200 years, muslin was only a memory, until recently, when ...

Even a decade ago, Dhakai Muslin was only for museum exhibits. The tales of the fabric were as bizarre as those that reached mythical status. “A whole muslin saree can go through a single ring worn on ...

Researchers in Bangladesh have resurrected Dhaka muslin, a prized handloom-based fine cotton fabric, with a greater opportunity for commercial production. Production of the highly prized Mughal-era ...

An inexorable part of growing up in the 80's and 90’s was to listen to the elders lamenting about all the good things that were lost forever from the kismet of Bengal. The bemoaning over the lost ...