Talk:Madras (cloth)

Source on the web?
Where can one find a source for Madras cloth? Unable to locate on the web.

I have been looking for "madras" cloth off and on, for over thirty years. The article being considered for deletion is correct about the use of bleeding dyes and a different look after each wash. It shouldn't be delected at this point. I cannot vouch for the reference to The OUtsiders,but that is easily verifiable. INcidentally, that IS a reference -- another reason it should not be deleted. it is in the outsiders. i read the book ♥ jewelzz

I recently went to India and although I never did meet with them, I finally located a group of local artists in the Chennai area who said by email they do make the orignal bleeding dye type cloth. I have not got a picture from them, but that's a thought. They did not dye cloth on a commercial scale.

I will see if I can dig up their website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.47.243.132 (talk) 05:00, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Please find one of the largest sources of madras fabric online at http://Fabriconlinestore.com and http://Patchwork-madras.weebly.com
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Source
I found it in an 1897 Sears and Roebuck catalogue now on the net when I looked for 'zephyr' as a type of cloth: ' Zephyr is the very best grade light weight imported Madras cloth'. So I think you should look into old books if you want to know more. Glatisant (talk) 07:10, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

It's also mentioned in chapter 4 of "Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami. "(...) and a guy in a madras jacket called out to her (...)" Michau (talk) 02:01, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Allmost entire article copied from external source?
AFAIKS everything after the first two paragraphs is simply copied from the article linked to: http://www.orvis.com/news/products-we-love/checkered-past-a-brief-history-of-the-madras-plaid-shirt/ .... SajmonDK (talk) 12:05, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Yep...the whole thing sounds like it was lifted from a retail catalog.... PurpleChez (talk) 17:52, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * This article is simply a cut-and-paste job from the Orvis catalogue. An actual Wikipedia article on this subject remains to be written.--71.36.99.75 (talk) 10:07, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 22:47, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Additional sources
Some sources probably worth getting ahold of: — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  05:01, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Some of the content is available for free, maybe enough to use. The rest might be accessible via The Wikipedia Library, if they have a deal with ProQuest by now.
 * A prepress version of some of the material is available here, as a conference paper: It was also presented at another conference in Helsinki, but the text is the same. (Relevance: much "Guinea cloth" was madras from India.)