> The full process involved 16 steps, each of which was so specialist, it was carried out by a different village This is not written like a documentary. It's w

> The full process involved 16 steps, each of which was so specialist, it was carried out by a different village This is not written like a documentary. It's written like ad copy. No detail about these 16 villages is given. I'm just being sold on the idea that it was very worthy of a high price. > As the European thirst for luxury fabrics increased I cant stand this kind of stilted language. The author, Zaria Govett, repeatedly uses it when discussing the English. > Though the British-made muslin didn’t come close to Dhaka’s original – it was made with ordinary cotton, and woven at significantly lower thread counts – the combination of decades of mistreatment and a sudden decline in the need for imported textiles killed it off for good. This doesn't really add up. If the stuff made in England was so obviously inferior why did the market for the real stuff dry up? You can generally make fabric with any thread count you want depending on how durable or economic you need it to be. In any case, was European demand the only thing keeping this industry alive for the past 2000 years? If so, how it it the English's fault because they decided to make it themselves? The author's dislike for the English seems to be the real motivation for this piece. Why the BBC published it is an exercise left for the reader.