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hardly any style of weaving that varanasi cannot reproduce. the baluchar technique of plain woven fabric brocaded with untwisted silk thread, which began in murshidabad district of west bengal, has taken root in varanasi. their craftsmen have also borrowed the jamdani technique. in the deportment of woolen...