how do the name of different textiles tell us about their history??
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When the protoguese first came to india they landed up in calcutta the cotton textiles that they took back along the spices came to be called as calico and subsequently calico became the general name for all cotton textiles
European traders first encounterd fine cotton cloth from India carried by Arab merchants in mosule in present day Iraq so they began referring to all finely woven Textiles as Muslin
The order that year was for 589000 peices of cloth these were known by their common name in the European trade as peice goods
There were other cloth in order book that were noted by the place of origin Kasim Bazar ,Patna ,Calcutta ,Orissa charpur
European traders first encounterd fine cotton cloth from India carried by Arab merchants in mosule in present day Iraq so they began referring to all finely woven Textiles as Muslin
The order that year was for 589000 peices of cloth these were known by their common name in the European trade as peice goods
There were other cloth in order book that were noted by the place of origin Kasim Bazar ,Patna ,Calcutta ,Orissa charpur
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Indian textiles had markets in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, and Europe. European traders first came across the fine cotton cloth of India in Mosul in present-day Iraq, and since then all fine quality Indian cloth came to be termed ‘Muslin’.
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