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‘…  there’s one particular variety of Gossypium Arboreum that’s mentioned in all texts as being really important for muslin production around Dhaka, which has this bright-red stem which is shown in the painting in the East India Company collection’ 

– Dr. Mark Nesbitt, Curator, Economic Botany Collection, Kew Gardens

  • Painting of phuti karpas
  • Cotton samples at herbarium in Kolkata
  • Preserved samples of phuti karpas, Kolkata
  • Kew herbarium, UK
  • Discussing with Dr. Nesbitt, Kew, UK
  • Preserved samples of phuti karpas
  • Fossilised seeds and cotton of G Arboreum, UK
  • Boating on the Meghna in search of phuti karpas, 2014
  • Team travelling on the Meghna searching for cotton samples, 2014
  • Showing villagers flyers of phuti karpas, 2014
  • Speaking with locals about phuti karpas, 2014
  • Surveying the banks of the Meghna for cotton cultivation, June 2014
  • Finding samples of cotton plants at Mymensingh University, 2014
  • Speaking with local people in Barisal about phuti karpas, 2014
  • Locals pointing out wild cotton plants, Barisal, 2014
  • Searching for phuti karpas at the Royal Jordan herbarium
  • Searching for phuti karpas in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
  • Searching for phuti karpas at Nagpur Cotton Research Centre, India
  • Samples of G Arboreum at Nagpur, India
  • Discussing muslin with Dr Pal at Jagdish Chandra Bose Gardens, Kolkata
  • Observing weaving practices in Assam, searching for phuti karpas
  • Cultivating land for phuti karpas at Gazipur on the Meghna riverbank
  • Ground preparation for cotton cultivation, Gazipur
  • Phuti Karpas growing on Meghna river bank
  • Early signs of cotton, Gazipur, on Meghna river bank
  • First cotton buds, phuti karpas, near river Meghna, Gazipur
  • Ground preparation being done for cotton planting, Gazipur
  • Ground preparation of Drik-BM plot, near Kapasia, Gazipur
  • Cotton seed plantation by CDB officials, near Kapasia, Gazipur
  • Cotton buds on plants, Kapasia, Gazipur
  • Cotton seed plantation by CDB officals, Kapasia, Gazipur
  • Phuti karpas plants blooming on trial plot, Gazipur
  • Phuti karpas plants growing on sample plot, Gazipur
  • Locally grown phuti karpas plant, Kapasia, Gazipur
  • DNA test of phuti karpas being done, UK
  • DNA testing of phuti karpas, UK
  • Phuti karpas DNA analysis being done, UK
  • Phuti karpas plant grown by Drik-BM