LAHORE: Long before fashion houses, branding strategies or glossy magazines, a fabric born on the banks of the River Meghna ruled the world’s imagination. It was called muslin—known locally as ‘mul ...

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 ...

Muslin Fabric: A Timeless Textile Loved by Homes, Designers & New Parents: By Aditya Migom Doley It’s strange how some fabrics never quite fade out of memory. Muslin fabric is one of them. A light, ...

On a crisp early winter morning, I stepped into a spacious handloom facility in the semi-urban landscape of Tarabo. Situated on the banks of the Shitalakshya River, the air around the facility was ...

But 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," said Ayub Ali, a senior government ...