Textile hub Bangladesh revives muslin, the forgotten elite fabric
Mar 10, 2022
Flowing garments woven from the cloth were worn by Mughal rulers before the fabric enchanted European aristocrats.
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 history. Read more at Al Jazeera.