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Jamdani Muslin Weaving

Discontinuous supplementary-weft cotton muslin brocade woven by hand on bamboo pit looms across Dhaka, Narayanganj, and Nadia.

Jamdani Muslin Weaving — archival documentary photograph
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Jamdani inserts individual coloured and unbleached cotton weft threads by hand using a bamboo kandul spindle across fine plain-weave muslin warps, producing geometric floral motifs that appear to float within translucent cloth without a drawloom. 1

Inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2013, master weavers transmit pattern counts orally through memorized mnemonic couplets called buli. 1

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