''Qutni'' ''(cuttanee, couthnys, Koetnies, Kutni)'' is an old silk and cotton mix cloth with a striped pattern. Qutni is a satin weave structure with silk in

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and cotton in the weft. It was made In

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, India. Qutni was also produced at

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Types

Qutni or Cuttanee

Cuttanee ( fa, قطنى) was related to silk alachas Qutni of

was a Satin weave with silk threads in warp and cotton in the weft. Gujarat was exporting Qutni in large to

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and much appreciated for quilts.

Rich Qutni

Damascus designed various silk cloths where Qutni and Alza were significant. They were making two types of Qutni, simple and rich, both with the same quantity of silk and cotton. The rich Qutni (

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: manqusheh) is a silk

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stripe patterned cloth in which weft is a foundation and warp creating the patterns. It is a superior fabric to simple Qutni. Qutni was weaved as per market specified dimensions; for example, Length 6.13 meters width 0.7 meters was for

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and

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, and

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. But for

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, the length was slightly more, i.e., 6.83 with the same width.

Mashru

Mashru silk samples in

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book elicits Qutni as Roques reports cottonis variations including stripes of cotton and silk that insinuates Mashru, the most related cloth from Gujrat, i.e., Qutni while J. Irwin compared ''alaja'' to Qutni.

Mentions

* Persian merchants introduced many

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n cloths in

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, The 1640 price list from

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mentions qutni from Yazd made ''like the Indian''(''qutni-i Yezd manend-i Hind'') or the Persian qutni 'in seven colours made in the Indian style (manend-i Hind heft-renk qutni-i agemi). *

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mentions Qutni as a mix of silk and wool with a price of 1.5 to 2.0 R per piece in the

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. * Bouiteneige is another word for a silk and cotton mix.

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