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Mashru was a blended striped cloths made of silk and cotton. Mashru was an old handwoven silk variety of the Indian subcontinent. The Mashru has cotton yarns in warp and silk in weft, cotton goes down and silk comes up that produces a kind of cloth with a cotton back.[1][2] Bahawalpur and Multan was famous for its Shuja khání silks.[3] Mashru was also produced in Punjab, and western parts[4] of India.[5]
Texture and types
Texture
Mashru was a mix of silk and cotton, although satin but a thick and heavy cloth with less lustrous and feminine nature like pure silk.[6][7]
Types
There were varieties of Mashru clothes, Gulbadan, and Sufi, among few leading examples of this category. Mashru was a coarser variety of silk clothes, and it was less expensive than pure silk.
Mentions
Mashru is explicitly mentioned in the Ain-i-Akbari under silken kinds of stuff. Mashru or Mushrues mashrū' means 'lawful.' Unlike pure silk, the blend was lawful. Hence it was an acceptable type of cloth among Muslim men. [2][4]
- "Pure silk is not allowed to men, but women may wear the most sumptuous silk fabrics" (Yusuf Ali, op. cit. 90, seq.)[1]
Use
"All Mushroos wash well, especially the finer kinds, used for bodices, petticoats, and trousers of both sexes." (Forbes Watson, op. cit. 97.)
See also
References
- ^ a b Yule, Sir Henry; Burnell, Arthur Coke (1996). Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary. Wordsworth Editions. p. 707. ISBN 978-1-85326-363-7.
- ^ a b ''The ordinary orthodox Muslim was only anxious to wear clothes of simple material like linen and to avoid silk , velvet , brocade or fur and coloured ... Mashru - Canonically allowed cloth , i . e . , mixed silk and cotton stuff , was worn , because a Muslim must not wear a dress of pure silk ... 61 Ain - i - Akbari , Blochmann , I , 89'' PAGE 39 A Social History of Islamic India - Page 39books.google.co.in › books Mohammad Yasin · 1958https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/A_Social_History_of_Islamic_India/Rz16lub2uRgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=M
- ^ Calcutta Review. University of Calcutta. 1891. p. 258.
- ^ a b ''The ikat velvet pieces which have been located so far and can be identified as Indian are similar in style to the mashru being woven in Western India . ... for the basic foundation and this may have been prepared specially for the conservative Muslim who did not use silk thread next to ... 19 The Ain - i - Akbari also mentions that Akbar received textiles signed by Giyatyad - Din Ali Naqshband as a part of the ...'' Handwoven Fabrics of India - Page 56 Jasleen Dhamija, Jyotindra Jain · 1989
- ^ Mukhopādhyāẏa, Trailokyanātha (1888). Art-manufactures of India: Specially Compiled for the Glasgow International Exhibition, 1888. Superintendant of Government Printing. p. 347.
- ^ Yule, Sir Henry; Burnell, Arthur Coke (1996). Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary. Wordsworth Editions. p. 912. ISBN 978-1-85326-363-7.
- ^ ''Mashru , for instance , a double layered material with a thick cotton base and covered with almost a single stranded silken warp and woof , was presumably an Indian innovation . Varieties containing silk and cotton admixtures gained greater currency in the empire , more particularly after the ... Ain - i - Akbari , Persian , ( ed . ) ...'' Indian Journal of History of Science - Volumes 17-18 - Page 120 1982