Private owners are targeting already disadvantaged groups who, as a result of their distress, become obliged to lease their land for saline water aquafarming.
With wooden spinning wheels and hand-drawn looms, Bangladesh is painstakingly resurrecting a fabric once worn by Marie Antoinette and Jane Austen, but long thought forever lost to history.
Dhaka muslin was stitched from threads so fine that popular folklore in European parlors held that a change in the light or a sudden rain shower would render its wearer apparently naked.
The textile once brought magnificent riches to the lands where it was spun.
However, to revive it, botanists had to hunt halfway across the world and back for a plant believed gone from the face of the Earth.
“Nobody knew how it was made,”
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