About Prachi Roy
I am a senior at Barnard College of Columbia University studying Art History. My research interests include South Asian Art, Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century European Art, and Clothing.
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Muslin, the Global Textile Trade, and the Revival of Jamdani Muslin in Bangladesh
Muslin is an exquisitely lightweight, sheer, and finely woven cotton. Literature from ancient to recent early colonial history shows that this textile was being produced exclusively by hand in the Dhaka region of Bengal (previously known as Dacca).
