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'''Gazzi cloth''' was an old handloom cloth; it was among indigenous coarse cotton varieties from [[Punjab]].<br />
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== Texture ==<br />
Gazzi was categorized as coarse cotton cloth similar to [[Longcloth|''ghatti'']]'', garha'', [[Sussi (cloth)|''sussi'']], and ''dosuti'', but it was thinner than ''eksuti'' and ''[[dosuti]]'' but inferior than ''garha''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Baden-Powell|first=Baden Henry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HnAIAAAAQAAJ|title=Hand-book of the Economic Products of the Punjab: With a Combined Index and Glossary of Technical Vernacular Words|date=1872|publisher=Printed at the Thomason Civil Engineering College Press|pages=4|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Production and use ==<br />
The Punjab region was famous for the production of many coarse cotton textiles produced with local short staple cotton.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ThQAQAAIAAJ|title=Indian Information|date=1941|publisher=Bureau of the public information of the government of India.|pages=274|language=en}}</ref> The Gazzi manufacturing was noted in many Punjab towns such as Jallandhar, Ambala, Kangra, Hoshiarpur, Delhi, Gujranwala, Lahore, etc. It was suitable material for the clothes of poor to common people.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Parshad|first=Gopal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H_nsAAAAMAAJ|title=Industrial Development in Northern India: A Study of Delhi, Punjab and Haryana, 1858-1918|date=2007|publisher=National Book Organisation|isbn=978-81-87521-20-4|pages=50|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Export ==<br />
Gazzi was among export cloths exported from the Punjab region. Remarkable quantities were exported to [[Afghanistan]] in the 19th century.<ref>{{Cite book|last=agric|first=Punjab dept of|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DKUIAAAAQAAJ&q=gazzi+cloth&pg=PA11|title=Statement showing estimate extent of cotton cultivation|date=1871|pages=11|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Dosuti]]<br />
* [[Longcloth|Gatti]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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