Talk:Madras (cloth)

Source on the web?

Disregard

 – Off-topic.

Where can one find a source for Madras cloth? Unable to locate on the web.

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 easily verifiable. INcidentally, that IS a reference -- another reason it should not be deleted. it is in the outsiders. i read the book ♥ jewelzz

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.

I will see if I can dig up their website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.47.243.132 (talk) 05:00, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Please find one of the largest sources of madras fabric online at http://Fabriconlinestore.com and http://Patchwork-madras.weebly.com

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Source

I found it in an 1897 Sears and Roebuck catalogue now on the net when I looked for 'zephyr' as a type of cloth: ' Zephyr 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. Glatisant (talk) 07:10, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

It's also mentioned in chapter 4 of "Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami. "(...) and a guy in a madras jacket called out to her (...)" Michau (talk) 02:01, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Allmost entire article copied from external source?

Resolved

 – Article has been totally rewritten since then.

AFAIKS everything after the first two paragraphs is simply copied from the article linked to: http://www.orvis.com/news/products-we-love/checkered-past-a-brief-history-of-the-madras-plaid-shirt/ .... SajmonDK (talk) 12:05, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Yep...the whole thing sounds like it was lifted from a retail catalog.... PurpleChez (talk) 17:52, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

This article is simply a cut-and-paste job from the Orvis catalogue. An actual Wikipedia article on this subject remains to be written.--71.36.99.75 (talk) 10:07, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

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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 easily verifiable. INcidentally, that IS a reference -- another reason it should not be deleted. 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. I will see if I can dig up their website. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Madras_%28cloth%29"

Last edited at 05:02, 3 August 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 22:47, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Additional sources

Some sources probably worth getting ahold of:

• Evenson, Sandra Lee (September 1994). A History of Indian Madras Manufacture and Shifting Patterns of Exchange (PhD). University of Minnesota. Some of the content is available for free, maybe enough to use. The rest might be accessible via The Wikipedia Library, if they have a deal with ProQuest by now.
• Kriger, Colleen E. (2006). Cloth in West African History. "African Archaeology" series. Lanham, Maryland: AltaMira Press. ISBN 9780759104228. A prepress version of some of the material is available here, as a conference paper: Kriger, Colleen E. (17–19 November 2005). 'Guinea Cloth': Production and Consumption of Cotton Textiles in West Africa Before and During the Atlantic Slave Trade (PDF). Global Economic History Network (GEHN) Conference. University of Padua – via lse.ac.uk. It was also presented at another conference in Helsinki, but the text is the same. (Relevance: much "Guinea cloth" was madras from India.)

 — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  05:01, 17 July 2023 (UTC)