Editing Muslin (section)

== Manufacturing process ==
Since all the processes were manual, manufacturing involved many [[artisan]]s for yarn spinning and weaving activities, but the leading role lay with the material and [[weaving]].<ref>{{Cite book |year=1851 |title=A descriptive and historical account of the cotton manufacture of Dacca, in Bengal |url=https://archive.org/details/1851cottonmanufactureofDacca |publisher=John Mortimer |pages=}}</ref>

* Ginning: For removing trash and [[Combing|cleaning and combing]] the fibers and making them parallel ready for spinning a ''boalee'' (upper jaw of a [[catfish]]) was used.
* Spinning and weaving: For extra humidity they used to weave during the rainy season for elasticity in the yarns and to avoid breakages. The process was so sluggish that it could take over five months to weave one piece of muslin.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ashmore|first=Sonia|date=2018-10-01|title=Handcraft as luxury in Bangladesh: Weaving jamdani in the twenty-first century|url=https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/infs/2018/00000005/00000002/art00009|journal=International Journal of Fashion Studies|volume=5|issue=2|pages=389–397|doi=10.1386/infs.5.2.389_7|s2cid=166980808|access-date=4 December 2020|archive-date=9 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709185802/https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/infs/2018/00000005/00000002/art00009|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref>