Madras (cloth) handwoven (evidenced by the small flaws in the fabric). Cotton madras is woven from a fragile, short-staple cotton fiber that can't be combed, only carded, resulting in bumps known as slubs which are thick spots in the yarn that give madras its unique texture. The cotton is hand-dyed after being spun into yarn, woven and finished in some 200 small villages in the Madras area. Madras fabric is generally regarded as belonging to the peasant class in its native India. Dutch traders arrived in India in the early 1600s to trade in the local calico cloth, followed by the British.
Little India MRT station half an hour earlier. The artwork featured in the North East Line section features "Memoirs of the Past" by S. Chandrasekaran. The animal paintings echos the past of Little India when buffalo stables were seen. The Downtown Line section features "Woven Field" by Grace Tan. It features a landscape of tessellated triangular configurations inspired by the singhaulia woven patterns commonly seen in the traditional sari. Little India MRT station Little India MRT station (NE7/DT12) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station on the Downtown Line and North East Line, located on the boundary of the planning areas of