A smooth delicately woven cotton fabric, used for dresses and curtains. In the USA coarser cotton fabrics used for shirts and sheeting are also called muslins.
Derivation: French Mousseline, from Mussolo, Mosul, a city in Iraq (Mesopotamia).
A smooth delicately woven cotton fabric, used for dresses and curtains. In the USA coarser cotton fabrics used for shirts and sheeting are also called muslins.
Derivation: French Mousseline, from Mussolo, Mosul, a city in Iraq (Mesopotamia).
