Ab-e-rawan - Mulmul Tunic with Overlapping Panels

Material: Mulmul Cotton with brushed batik dyeing.

Colour: Aqua

Care instructions: dry clean only

This tunic can be worn as a Kurta teamed with palazzo or flared shirt or as a dress or tunic teamed with shorts or short skirt

The cotton handloom industry of India is one of the oldest manufacturing institutions of the world; its looms have run continuously for five centuries. Cotton in India was handspun to produce almost forty different kinds of fabric. Muslin or Mulmul was one such fabric that enamoured royalty all over the world. Its soft, sheer texture led Roman emperors to refer to it as “woven wind”. In India, mulmul was worn exclusively by Indian royalty. The cotton mulmul produced in Dhaka looms excelled with Mughal patronage. When woven for Viceroys, the muslins were poetically labelled with exotic names like Ab-e-rawan (running water), Shabnam (evening dew) and Sharbati (winelike).