In 2013, the traditional art of weaving Jamdani muslin in Bengal was declared by UNESCO as a masterpiece of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
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My grandmother, then a young girl of 15 or 16, had been reading Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge in which there appears a character named Dolly Varden; also the vogue in fashion for women at that time (middle 1870s) was called 'Dolly Varden', a dress of sheer figured muslin worn over a bright-colored petticoat.
My grandmother, then a young girl of 15 or 16, had been reading Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge in which there appears a character named Dolly Varden; also the vogue in fashion for women at that time (middle 1870s) was called "Dolly Varden", a dress of sheer figured muslin worn over a bright-colored petticoat.
Women dressed in the Grecian style, wearing empire line dresses in white muslin or coloured silk or satin; their hair is worn up, with longer curls falling either side of the face as the period progressed.
According to Ahmet Hakan Coşkun, the sect requires strict clothing, with members wearing beards, Kaftans, and shalwar trousers, and turbans of white muslin when praying.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, James Taylor described the figured or flowered jamdani; in the late nineteenth century, T. N. Mukharji referred to this fabric as jamdani muslin.
An early piece of Juvenilia, Frederick and Elfrida, is dedicated to her As a small testimony of the gratitude I feel for your late generosity to me in finishing my muslin Cloak, I beg leave to offer you this little production of your sincere Friend and later writings prove that she had been allowed to see the manuscripts for Love and Freindship sic and for First Impressions, an early version of Pride and Prejudice and an honor accorded to few.
The film features a life-size talking muslin doll named Mor and was filmed in Wallingford, Connecticut and Monroe, Connecticut.
Wolfgang Musculus, born "Müslin" or "Mauslein", (10 September 1497 in Duss (Dieuze), Lothringen – 30 August 1563 in Bern) was a Reformed theologian of the Reformation.