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The quest to bring back fine Bangladeshi muslin, which once enchanted aristocrats and royalty, began with a painstaking five-year search for the specific flower used to weave the material.
To revive it, botanists had to hunt halfway across the world and look for a plant believed gone from the face of the planet.
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 ...
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 parlours held that a change in the light or a sudden rain shower would render its wearer apparently naked.
The production of Dhaka muslin needs intense labor, making garments made from it a boutique product