"The Ancient Fabric No One Knows How To Make"

[minoanmiss]

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-ancient-fabric-that-no-one-knows-how-to-make

The spectacularly delicate Dhaka muslin, destroyed by the British East India Company, now possibly being revived.

With thanks to dine for the link.

Comments

[dissectionist]

As a textile artist, this is awesome! (Though also terrifying. I can’t imagine how much stress a fabric that expensive would have caused both for the people making it and the seamstresses that would have had to sew it. The pressure to use every last 1/8” would have been immense.)

[amaebi]

Oh, I’d read about that!

[amaebi]

Thanks! This has much more information than I got earlier.

[acelightning73]

With the weather we're having, I'd like to have a dress made of that. I hate wearing dresses, but something that airy and cool might change my mind.