Sunanda on Nostr: The last industrial revolution produced cheap copies of the real Bengali muslin cloth ...
The last industrial revolution produced cheap copies of the real Bengali muslin cloth and since the real deal was too slow, too "expensive" required too many trained artisans, it has been lost. Sure, there are revival movements trying to study old cloth and trying recreate it. But the cheap copy flooding the market necessarily meant a loss of skill. Similar thing happened to the true Damascus steel as well, didn't it? 1/2
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