Niwar (cotton tape)
South Asian narrow, thick, woven textile / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Niwar (also known as newar, niwar, nivar, navār, or nuwār)[1][2] is a coarse, narrow, thick tape that was initially made of cotton only. Niwar is a textile product produced on tape looms and classified as a narrow-width fabric.[3] Baden Henry Powell referred to it as "broad coarse tape", a product of the jail industry. In his book Handbook of the Manufactures and Arts of the Punjab, Powell classified niwar under the category of "tape, string, and miscellaneous cotton products".[4] A weaver of this tape is called a niwar-baf.[1]