DCF Plain White Muslin 100% Cotton Fabric 137cm Wide per metre

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And yet, hanging airily from the ceiling at the exhibition, there was a freshly woven length of transparent cotton labeled, “New Age Muslin.” It became highly popular in 18th-century France and eventually spread across much of the Western world. Dhaka muslin was first showcased in the UK at The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851. [14] Manufacturing process [ edit ] Jamdani recognised as intangible cultural heritage by Unesco", The Daily Star, 5 December 2013 , retrieved 4 December 2013

Gorvett, Zaria. "The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make". BBC Future. BBC . Retrieved 21 September 2022. At its peak, muslin was on display at the French court where, at the close of the 18th century, Empress Josephine’s muslin dresses set the course for the Empire Line style in France and later in Regency-era Britain. That style centered around muslin, since only “filmy muslin,” wrote Christine Kortsch, author of Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women’s Fiction, “clung Greek-like to the body … and no color would do but white.” Mull is another kind of muslin. It is a soft, thin, and semitransparent material. The name is derived from Hindi "mal" which means "soft". Swiss mull is a type of which is finished with stiffening agents. [37] Decline under Company rule [ edit ] Surgeons use muslin gauze in cerebrovascular neurosurgery to wrap around aneurysms or intracranial vessels at risk for bleeding. [45] The thought is that the gauze reinforces the artery and helps prevent rupture. It is often used for aneurysms that, due to their size or shape, cannot be microsurgically clipped or coiled. [46] Recognition [ edit ] A pause. Then he added, “They say the British cut off the thumbs of the weavers so that they couldn’t make muslin anymore.” And with that, he got up from his chair and walked away.Berger, C.; Hartmann, M.; Wildemann, B. (March 2003). "Progressive visual loss due to a muslinoma – report of a case and review of the literature". European Journal of Neurology. 10 (2): 153–158. doi: 10.1046/j.1468-1331.2003.00546.x. PMID 12603290. S2CID 883414.

Bhattacharya, Ranjit Kumar; Chakrabarti, S. B. (2002). Indian Artisans: Social Institutions and Cultural Values. Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India, Ministry of Culture, Youth Affairs and Sports, Department of Culture. p.87. ISBN 978-81-85579-56-6. While all travelers to the region waxed lyrical about Bengal’s fine cotton cloth, it was the first-century ce Roman author Petronius who, in Satyricon, formulated the dominant trope about muslin as ventus textilis (woven wind): “Thy bride might as well clothe herself with a garment of the wind as stand forth publicly naked under her clouds of muslin.” A woman in fine Bengali muslin, "Muslim Lady Reclining" by Francesco Renaldi (1789) Woman's muslin dress c. 1855Gorvett, Zaria. "The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make". www.bbc.com . Retrieved 6 June 2023. Storage & organisation Furniture Textiles Kitchenware & tableware Kitchens Lighting Decoration Rugs, mats & flooring Beds & mattresses Baby & children Smart home Bathroom products Laundry & cleaning Plants & plant pots Home electronics Home improvement Outdoor living Food & beverages Christmas Shop Shop by room Muslins were originally made of cotton only. These were very thin, transparent, delicate and feather light breathable fabrics. There could be 1000–1800 yarns in warp and weigh 3.8oz (110g) for 1yd ×10yd (0.91m ×9.14m). Some varieties of muslin were so thin that they could even pass through the aperture of a lady finger-ring. [17] [18] [19] Transparency [ edit ]

To separate liquid from mush (for example, to make apple juice: wash, chop, boil, mash, then filter by pouring the mush into a muslin bag suspended over a jug) Muslin ( / ˈ m ʌ z l ɪ n/) is a cotton fabric of plain weave. [1] It is made in a wide range of weights from delicate sheers to coarse sheeting. [2] It gets its name from the city of Mosul, Iraq, where it was first manufactured. [3] [4] [5]By the 17th century, Bengali muslin was associated with the power and elegance of the Mughal court in India, as shown in this 1665 depiction of princes Dara Shikoh and Sulaiman Shikoh Nimbate.

and varieties of mulmul ( Mulboos khas, Jhuna, Sarkar ali, Sarbati, Tarindam) [33] were among the most delicate cotton muslins produced in the Indian subcontinent. [34] [35] [36] Certain delicate muslins were given poetic names such as Baft Hawa ("woven air"), Shabnam ("evening dew"), and āb-i-ravān ("flowing water"). The latter name refers to a fine and transparent variety of fine muslin from Dacca. [22] The fabric's characteristics are summed up in its name. [23] [24] Types [ edit ] In the early days of silent film-making, and until the late 1910s, movie studios did not have the elaborate lights needed to illuminate indoor sets, so most interior scenes were sets built outdoors with large pieces of muslin hanging overhead to diffuse sunlight. This is very lightweight muslin and would be a lovely floaty curtain but I mistakenly used it to make a dress toile. It was almost impossible to sew so next time I'll buy calico!Spinning and weaving: For extra humidity they used to weave during the rainy season for elasticity in the yarns and to avoid breakages. The process was so sluggish that it could take over five months to weave one piece of muslin. [16]