Gazzi cloth

Gazzi cloth was an old handloom cloth; it was among indigenous coarse cotton varieties from Punjab.

Texture

Gazzi was categorized as coarse cotton cloth similar to ghatti, garha, sussi, and dosuti, but it was thinner than eksuti and dosuti but inferior than garha.[1]

Production and use

The Punjab region was famous for the production of many coarse cotton textiles produced with local short staple cotton.[2] The Gazzi manufacturing was noted in many Punjab towns such as Jallandhar, Ambala, Kangra, Hoshiarpur, Delhi, Gujranwala, Lahore, etc. It was suitable material for the clothes of poor to common people.[1][3]

Export

Gazzi was among export cloths exported from the Punjab region. Remarkable quantities were exported to Afghanistan in the 19th century.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Baden-Powell, Baden Henry (1872). Hand-book of the Economic Products of the Punjab: With a Combined Index and Glossary of Technical Vernacular Words. Printed at the Thomason Civil Engineering College Press. p. 4.
  2. ^ Indian Information. Bureau of the public information of the government of India. 1941. p. 274.
  3. ^ Parshad, Gopal (2007). Industrial Development in Northern India: A Study of Delhi, Punjab and Haryana, 1858-1918. National Book Organisation. p. 50. ISBN 978-81-87521-20-4.
  4. ^ agric, Punjab dept of (1871). Statement showing estimate extent of cotton cultivation. p. 11.


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