Sari-length textile
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Bengali muslins have been admired for their delicacy of weave and refined decoration since antiquity. The skill of Bengal weavers has been long praised and their product once formed a staple of the Indo-Roman trade to the Mediterraean, where Pliny captured the cloth’s ephemeral quality, referring to it as “woven air.” In these examples, silver and gold-wrapped thread has been integrated into the fabric of the cloth, creating an in-weave design of great delicacy.
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