The silk poplin hand-woven material is cut by hand.
We are told that, in some cases, the whole of the present output is to go abroad, as, for example, with poplins.
A firm making screen-printed poplins has had to reduce its range drastically.
They go first from shirts to, perhaps, overalls, and then from overalls to raincoat poplins, or whatever it may be.
Having lost the poplin side of the industry, two years later everybody would say that we did not want poplin on the quota because we did not make it here.
We all know the evidence which has accumulated over the years about manufacturers who make less and less of certain lines of cloth, such as poplins and really first-class furnishings.
The women traditionally wear short-sleeved white blouses, with colourfully embroidered open necklines, and long poplin skirts in various colors.
Poplin traditionally consisted of a silk warp with a weft of worsted yarn.
