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'''Garbi''' also '''Garvi''' was a silk-cotton [[Blend (textile)|blend]] fabric made with [[cotton]] in the warp and [[silk]] in the weft. It was a handloom [[textile]] material from the nineteenth century [[Sindh]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Watt |first=George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hLk9AQAAMAAJ&dq=garbi+fabric&pg=PA363 |title=Indian Art at Delhi, 1903: Being the Official Catalogue of the Delhi Exhibition, 1902-1903 |date=1904 |publisher=J. Murray |pages=363 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Duarte |first=Adrian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aD3cAAAAMAAJ&q=garbi+fabric |title=The Crafts and Textiles of Sind and Baluchistan |date=1982 |publisher=Institute of Sindhology, University of Sind |language=en}}</ref> and [[Punjab]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Latifi|first=A.|url=http://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.03213|title=The industrial Punjab: : a survey of facts, conditions and possibilities|date=1911|publisher=Longmans, Green, London|pages=39}}</ref> Garbi had a strong and a rough texture. It was made of thirty yards in length and nine inches in width, like the other [[piece goods]] from [[India]] and [[Pakistan]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lnAMAQAAMAAJ&q=Garbi+cloth|title=The Gazetteer of West Pakistan: The Former Province of Sind Including Khairpur State|date=1968|publisher=Gazetteer Cell, Board of Revenue|pages=288|language=en}}</ref> Women in [[Sindhis|Sindh]] wore Garbi-made folk dresses.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Soomro|first=Faiz Mohammad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yAwNAAAAIAAJ&q=Garbi+cloth|title=Cultural History of Sind|date=1977|publisher=National Book Foundation|pages=77,90|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Mashru]]<br />
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