She fingered fine muslins and intricate laces, heavy crimson silks and tulle. |
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The west of Scotland was renowned for tamboured muslins, which were produced by women and girls working from home. |
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From cotton are made many qualities of unbleached, half-bleached, and bleached cloth, also calicoes, ginghams, muslins, nainsooks, cambrics, etc. |
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The earliest known cotton textiles are from the Indus Valley, and for centuries Indian calicos and muslins were widely traded luxury goods. |
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Fabrics varied, and included calendared or glazed fabrics of wool, plain or floral printed calicos and muslins, and glazed chintz monochrome or polychrome prints. |
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Poets of the Mughal durbar likened our muslins to baft hawa. |
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Other very different styles of fabric are now indifferently called muslins, and the term is used differently on the respective sides of the Atlantic. |
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