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MUSLIN (through Fr. mousseline from It. mussolino, diminutive of Mussolo, i.e. the town Mosul in Kurdistan)

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 93 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOS-NAN
MUSLIN (through Fr. mousseline from It. mussolino, diminutive of Mussolo, i.e. the town Mosul in Kurdistan) a light
cotton
  cloth said to have been first made at Mosul, a city of
Mesopotamia
 . Muslins have been largely made in various parts of India, whence they were imported to England towards the endof the 17th century. Some of these Indian muslin were very fine and costly. Among the specialties are Arni muslin, made in the
Madras
 
presidency
 , and
Dacca
  muslin, made at
Dacca
  in Bengal. Muslin of many kinds are now made in Europe and America, and the name is applied to both plain and fancy cloths, and to printed calicoes of light texture. Swiss muslin is a light variety, woven in stripes or figures, originally made in Switzerland. Book muslin is made in
Scotland
  from very fine yarns. Mulls, jaconets, lenos, and other cloths exported to the
East
  and elsewhere are sometimes described as muslins. Muslin is used for dresses, blinds, curtains, &c.


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