Nainsook
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"The little girl's dress is of white China scilk (sic). The yoke is covered with all-over-lace. The ruffles are hemmed up and feather-stitched. The child's dress is of white nainsook with hemstitching and insertion."
Nainsook is a soft, fine, lightweight form of muslin.<ref name=Merriam>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=Oxford>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Muslin encompasses a broad range of fabrics of varying weight and fineness, but is always a plain weave, cotton fabric. The word 'nainsook' is first documented in 1790, and derives from the Hindi word nainsukh, which literally means "eye's delight".<ref name="Merriam"/>
Nainsook was often used to make babies' clothing or lingerie at least until the 1920s.<ref name=Wells>Template:Cite book</ref> Nainsook cotton was also often used to make bias tape in the 1950s and 1960s.