Muslin Festival in Dhaka

The Muslin Festival, hosted by Drik in collaboration with Aarong and the Bangladesh National Museum is set to start on 5 February 2016. The monthlong national exhibition will opens at the Nalini Kanta Bhattashali Gallery, Bangladesh National Museum. The history of the once-immensely popular muslin, a lightweight cotton fabric of plain weave, is being revisited through a month-long festival that opened at Bangladesh National Museum on Friday. The festival features an exhibition, a cultural and fashion show, seminar, launches of a book, a commemorative stamp and a documentary on the making of muslin in Dhaka that had been home to the finest of its clothes for centuries. Drik organised the event in association with the museum and Arong after years of research and investigation into the history of muslin and with the aim of creating awareness and exploring its future (Photo by NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)