On a golden summer morning in Rupganj, Narayanganj, the sound of handlooms echoes from tin-roofed sheds nestled amid winding village paths and open fields. Inside, women and men sit in quiet focus, ...

Nearly two centuries ago, Dhaka's Muslin was the finest fabric on the planet. Then colonization happened, and it just disappeared. For over 200 years, muslin was only a memory, until recently, when ...

Imagine a saree that can pass through a finger ring or fit into a box of matches. This is the story of the famed muslin of ...

When I was a first-time mum, I had no clue what a muslin cloth was or why everyone kept raving about it. That quickly changed once I had a baby. You've probably heard it a hundred times by now, but ...

A good marriage is about compromise. Who gets the remote tonight? Are we having Italian or Thai for dinner? Should we go see your parents or mine for the holidays? While my spouse and I had figured ...

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Nearly 200 years ago, Dhaka muslin was the most valuable fabric on the planet. Then it was lost altogether. How did this happen? And can we bring it back? In late 18th-Century Europe, a new fashion ...

An inexorable part of growing up in the 80's and 90’s was to listen to the elders lamenting about all the good things that were lost forever from the kismet of Bengal. The bemoaning over the lost ...