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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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