Long before haute couture existed, Bengal had Jamdani. A muslin so fine that Mughal emperors called it woven air, and European traders sailed half the world to bring it home. For centuries, the loom towns of Bengal such as Dhaka, Phulia, Shantipur, Fulia, hummed with the sound of wooden shuttles dancing across cotton warp threads. The Jamdani technique, classified by UNESCO as an Intangible […]
