Muslin ( or ), also mousseline , is a plain woven cotton cloth. These are made in various weights ranging from thin layers to coarse sheets. They were imported into Europe from Bengal in the 17th century and later produced in Scotland and England. It got its name from the city of Mosul, Iraq, where it may first be produced. Early muslin was handwoven handspun yarn that was not complicated, especially in the area around Dhaka, Bengal (now Bangladesh), where it may come from. It was imported into Europe for much of the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Finished fine linen cloth known as sindon .
In 2013, the traditional art of weaving Jamdani muslin in Bangladesh is included in the list of Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage Masterpieces by UNESCO.
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Etymology and history
Muslin from the French mousseline of Italian mussolina, from Mussolo 'Mosul' (Mosul, Iraq, where European merchants were said to have first discovered the cloth). Although this view has a cloth named after the city where the first Europeans saw it (Mosul), it is believed to have originated in Dhakeshwari, now Dhaka the capital of Bangladesh. In the 9th century, an Arab merchant named Sulaiman made notes on the material origin in Bengal (known as Ruhmi in Arabic). Bengali muslin is traded throughout the Muslim world, from the Middle East to Southeast Asia. In many areas of Islam, as in Central Asia, the cloth was named after Daka, after Dhaka city.
Some believe the Crusaders from the First Crusade found cloth in the Middle East and brought it back to Europe.
Furthermore, Muslin finds his place in various European languages ​​as French mousseline , Italian mussolina etc.,
In 1298, Marco Polo described the cloth in his book The Travels. He said it was made in Mosul, Iraq. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Mughal Bengal emerged as the world's leading muslin exporter, with Mughal Dhaka as the muslin trade capital worldwide. During the Roman period, Khadi muslin was introduced in Europe and a large number of fabrics were traded to Europe for centuries. It became very popular in 18th century France and eventually spread to much of the Western world. During the British colonial rule of the eighteenth century, the Bengali muslin industry was brutally suppressed by various colonial policies, favored by imports of industrial textiles from England. The brutality of the muslin weavers is very strong, William Bolts noted in 1772 that "examples have been known about cutting off their thumbs to prevent them being forced to release the sutras." As a result, the quality of muslin suffered greatly and its skill was almost gone for two centuries. There are various attempts to revive the muslin industry in modern Bangladesh.
At the end of the 16th century, British travelers Ralph Fitch greatly admired the Sonargaon muslin. A Portuguese traveler, Duarte Barbosa described the Bengal muslin in the early 16th century. He mentions several types of fabrics, such as estrabante (sarband), mamona, fugoza, choutara, and sinabaka. Today, many types of muslin are produced in many different places, including Dhaka.
The word muslin is also used in everyday language. In the UK, many cotton fabrics are called muslin, while in the United States, muslin sometimes refers to a strong cloth for everyday use, which in England and Australia is known as calico.
Under British rule, British East India companies can not compete with local Muslin by exporting their own fabrics to India. Muslin's production was suppressed and his knowledge was eradicated. Local weavers are systematically captured and their hands mutilated with their thumbs up.
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Usage
Make dress and sew
When sewing clothes, a tailor can test a garment match, using inexpensive muslin fabrics before cutting pieces of expensive fabrics, thus avoiding potential cost errors. This outfit is often called "muslin," and the process is called "making muslin." In this context, "muslin" has become a generic term for test or fitting garments, regardless of what it is made of.
Muslin is also often used as a support or coating for blankets, and thus can often be found in wide widths in the quilting parts of fabric stores.
Polish the envelope
Muslin is used as a French polishing pad.
Culinary
Muslin can be used as filter:
- In a mouthpiece when pouring wine or ports to prevent sediment from entering the decanter To separate the liquid from the slurry (for example, to make apple juice: wash, cut, boil, mash, then strain by pouring the mush into a muslin pouch hanging over the jug) To maintain a liquid solid (for example, in the manufacture of home cheese, when the milk has thickened into gel, pour into muslin bags and squash between two plates (reversed under bricks) to squeeze the whey juice from the cheese curd)
Muslin is the material for traditional fabrics wrapped around Christmas pudding.
Muslin is a cloth that wraps things in a barmbrack, a traditionally eaten fruit cake on Halloween in Ireland.
Muslin is used when making traditional Fijian Kava as a filter.
Beekeepers use muslin to filter out melted beeswax to clean particles and debris.
Theater and photography
Muslin is often the cloth of choice for theater sets. It is used to cover the background set and to set the atmosphere or feel of various scenes. It receives the paint properly and, if treated properly, can be translucent.
It also holds the dye well. It's often used to create night scenes because when dyed, it often looks bumpy with a slightly different color, so it resembles the night sky. Muslin shrinks after being painted or sprayed with water, which is desirable in some common techniques such as soft-coated flats.
In video production as well, muslin is used as cheap greenscreen or bluescreen, either pre-colored or painted with latex paint (diluted with water). This is usually used as a background for the chroma lock technique.
Muslin is the background material most commonly used by photographers for official portrait backgrounds. This background is usually painted, most often with abstract striped patterns.
In the early days of silent film making, and until the late 1910s, the film studios did not have elaborate lights to illuminate the set of rooms, so most of the interior scenes were installed outdoors with large pieces of muslin hanging in the sun.
Medicine
The surgeon uses muslin gauze in cerebrovascular nerve surgery to wrap around an aneurysm or intracranial vein at risk of bleeding. The idea is that gauze strengthens the arteries and helps prevent rupture. Often used for aneurysms which, due to their size or shape, can not be clamped or rolled microsurgically.
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