To even further reduce your plastic consumption, use cloth or muslin bags for your bulk items.

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The longer I looked the more I noticed that she had a good figure within her plain muslin blouse.

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He painted the walls with a mixture of lime to retard crumbling and hung muslin on the ceiling to catch falling dirt, just as the settlers did.

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Here cheese-maker Alastair Pearson takes 90, 000 litres of milk a year from five biodynamic farms and turns it into enormous rounds of nutty, muslin-wrapped cheddar, creamy brie, Swiss-style mountain cheese, gouda and mature, tangy tomme.

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No chief executive would unveil a new corporate strategy wearing a broad-collared tail coat, skin-hugging trousers that left little to the imagination and billowing muslin stock in the gap that a tie would later fill.

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We thread our way through the streets, each prettier than the last, to the small, quaint Hotel Kaikias, whose floors are wooden, whose beds are comprehensively draped in muslin, whose rooms are antique-clad and service is accompanied by a broad smile.

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The popular fabric of the time was muslin and there were wild rumours that women would have wet the sheer fabric so that the outline of their figure could be seen beneath the dress, although in reality this would probably only have happened at very private gatherings.

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First comes the idea, then the sketching, then the draping of white toile (muslin), first over a mannequin and later over a live model, and finally the cutting of samples on a pattern that translates the temporary magic of the toile into a permanent garment in the fabric and colours of the designer's choice.

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