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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Some of the content is available for free, maybe enough to use. The rest might be accessible via The Knowledge (XXG) Library, if they have a deal with ProQuest by now.
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easily verifiable. INcidentally, that IS a reference -- another reason it should not be deleted. it is in the outsiders. i read the book ♥ jewelzz
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This article is simply a cut-and-paste job from the Orvis catalogue. An actual Knowledge (XXG) article on this subject remains to be written.--
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It was also presented at another conference in Helsinki, but the text is the same. (Relevance: much "Guinea cloth" was madras from India.)
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It's also mentioned in chapter 4 of "Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami. "(...) and a guy in a madras jacket called out to her (...)"
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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.
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http://www.orvis.com/news/products-we-love/checkered-past-a-brief-history-of-the-madras-plaid-shirt/
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easily verifiable. INcidentally, that IS a reference -- another reason it should not be deleted.
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AFAIKS everything after the first two paragraphs is simply copied from the article linked to:
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a shopping site or a forum for discussion. This talk page is only for improving the article.
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A prepress version of some of the material is available here, as a conference paper:
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Where can one find a source for Madras cloth? Unable to locate on the web.
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Yep...the whole thing sounds like it was lifted from a retail catalog....
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A History of Indian Madras Manufacture and Shifting Patterns of Exchange
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Please find one of the largest sources of madras fabric online at
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now on the net when I looked for 'zephyr' as a type of cloth: '
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Allmost entire article copied from external source?
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