Literature
‘I am spending all my Money … I bought 10 yds of (pretty coloured check’d muslin)
– Jane Austen (1775-1817), English author, writing to her sister Cassandra on 18th April 1811
Books:
ঢাকাই মসলিন- আবদুল কারিম, মে ১৯৬৫, ফজলে রাব্বি, বাংলা একাডেমী। জামদানী- মোহাম্মদ সাইদুর, জুন ১৯৯৩, বাংলা একাডেমী। Muslin-Sonia Ashmore, 2012, V&A Publishing. The Company weavers of Bengal (The East India Company and the Organization of Textile Production in Bengal)-Hameeda Hossain, 2010, The University Press Limited. The Sketch of the Topography & Statistics of Dacca-James Taylor, First Edition 1840, Asiatic Society Edition, March 2010, The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. Textile Tradition of Bangladesh-National Crafts Council of Bangladesh, Second revised Edition 2006, National Crafts Council of Bangladesh. A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India, Vol 4, Cambridge Library Collection, 1890
Articles:
How India clothed the world: the world of South Asian textiles. 1500-1850, Roberto Davini, Business History, 2010
The Life of Edward Baines, Late M.P. for the Borough of Leeds, Edward Baines, newspaper proprietor, Leeds
An Account of the Art of Weaving amongst the Ancients, (On The Raw Materials Used For Weaving, Volume 1), James Yates
The Marie Antoinette dress that ignited the slave trade, Caroline London, January, 2018
The Wild and cultivated Cotton plants of the world by Sir George Watt;, Longmans, Green, and co., London 1907
Bengal to Britain (Re-creating Historic Fashions of the Muslin Trade), Foreward by Dr. Sarif Uddin Ahmed, Edited by Heritage Fashion Recreations, Designed by Saif Osmani, Stepney Community Trust
Protecting Bangladesh’s Geographical Indication Interests (The case of Jamdani), October 2014, National Crafts Council of Bangladesh.
SPINNING FOR FREEDOM- On How Viewing Khadi as theatre Unravels the Narrative of Mahatma Gandhi- By Dr. Susan S. Bean 5000 years of India’s Trade textile by Jasleen Dhamija Traditional Handicrafts, Reviving the once-famous Muslin by K.R.N Swamy Woven Air An Introduction- Beth Stockley, ‘On the Supply of Cotton from British India’, East India Company, Henry St. George Tucker, 1836