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Yarn Counts feather-light saree woven by my grandfather is at Muslin Jamdanis are textiles woven with muslin the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. yarns following the jamdani hand-weaving technique thus presenting the marriage of two The jamdani weaving technique involves hand- exalted traditional Indian textile expressions. weaving on a wooden pit loom. The warp yarns are Muslin yarns are yarns that are hand-spun and set on the loom, and the weaver creates the ground have a count of above 100; this means that just fabric by throwing the shuttle through the shed of 10 grams of cotton is hand-spun to a length of the warp yarns. The motifs are created by manually 1000 metres. A finer count means that a lower interlacing supplementary weft yarns into the warp. amount of cotton is spun into the same length of The yarns for the motifs are wound around copper 1000 metres. The yarn count distinguishes Muslin needles. It is a slow technique. Jamdani from Khadi: Khadi is also hand-woven with hand-spun yarns, however the count of these Paving a New Path yarns is below 100, that is more than 10 grams By integrating two techniques of weaving with of cotton used for hand-spinning 1000 metres of muslin yarns following the jamdani technique my Khadi yarn. father and I have created fine Muslin Jamdani fabrics. However this required modification of We speak of muslin yarn count just like we speak the loom. We researched the looms for weaving of the purity of gold. Just as 24k gold is the muslins and jamdanis, successfully designed a purest, 500-count yarn is the purest, which means loom which weaves Muslin Jamdani, which is not that just two grams of cotton has been spun into available with others. For weaving Muslin Jamdanis 1000 metres yarn resulting in a very very fine yarn. the loom had to undergo a change as the muslin When this yarn is used for weaving it results in yarn is very fine and sensitive. By integrating a very fine fabric. In past centuries, fine muslins features of the loom used for weaving muslins and were woven for royalty and export; in fact a the loom used for weaving jamdanis we created