Garbi cloth

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Garbi was a silk-cotton blend fabric made with cotton in the warp and silk in the weft. It was a handloom textile material from the nineteenth century Punjab.[1] Garbi had a strong and a rough texture. It was made of thirty yards in length and nine inches in width, like the other piece goods from India and Pakistan.[2] Women in Sindh wore Garbi-made folk dresses.[3]

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  1. ^ Latifi, A. (1911). The industrial Punjab: : a survey of facts, conditions and possibilities. Longmans, Green, London. p. 39.
  2. ^ The Gazetteer of West Pakistan: The Former Province of Sind Including Khairpur State. Gazetteer Cell, Board of Revenue. 1968. p. 288.
  3. ^ Soomro, Faiz Mohammad (1977). Cultural History of Sind. National Book Foundation. pp. 77, 90.