Garbi also Garvi was a silk-cotton blend fabric made with cotton in the warp and silk in the weft. It was a handloom textile material from the nineteenth century Sindh and Punjab. 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. Women in Sindh wore Garbi-made folk dresses.
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- Watt, George (1904). Indian Art at Delhi, 1903: Being the Official Catalogue of the Delhi Exhibition, 1902-1903. J. Murray. p. 363.
- Duarte, Adrian (1982). The Crafts and Textiles of Sind and Baluchistan. Institute of Sindhology, University of Sind.
- Latifi, A. (1911). The industrial Punjab: : a survey of facts, conditions and possibilities. Longmans, Green, London. p. 39.
- The Gazetteer of West Pakistan: The Former Province of Sind Including Khairpur State. Gazetteer Cell, Board of Revenue. 1968. p. 288.
- Soomro, Faiz Mohammad (1977). Cultural History of Sind. National Book Foundation. pp. 77, 90.
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