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 * ...that heddles (pictured) have an integral role in weaving, and that a loom will use several hundred at once?
 * ...that on the banks of Shitalakshya River, in Bangladesh, there are artistic weaving centres, where once the muslin industry flourished?
 * ...that the British colonials employed Indian agents called gomasthas to obtain goods from local weavers and fix their prices?

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 * 1) 6 March 2008, Main Page appearance.
 * 2) Recent additions 190, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 3) 17 April 2008, Main Page appearance.