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Chautar

Old muslin cloth of Mughal period From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Chautar or Chaotaer (Cotton cloth) is an old cotton fabric of the Mughal period. The chautar was a  mulmul variety, and the finest mulmul was termed as "Mulmul Shahi" in Hindi and Persian languages. It was produced in Eastern India. Way back, Chittagong was exporting this cloth.[1][2][3][4] Conceivably then cloths were produced in smaller pieces only since the Chautar is described as a piece good. It has been recorded with specific dimensions, i.e., length 12.44 meters and width 77.75 centimeters. Chautar was compared with sansuo, which was a three shuttle cloth, type of fine cotton variety produced at Songjiang .[5]

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Cloths with similar names

"Chowtars" (means four wires) were characterised as cloth made with four warp and weft threads on both sides.[6][7] "Chautahi" a "four folded cloth" was a quality more often used in the Punjab region.[8]

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See also

Mughal Karkhanas

Ain-i-Akbari

Panchtoliya

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