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Baby Mul-mul Jhabla Set
Undyed mul-mul at 55 GSM, seams turned outward, formaldehyde and azo numbers printed.
₹590
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Size: 0-3 M
₹590
0-3 M
The Shuunnya promise
The plainest safe thing to put on a newborn: no dye, no bleach, no resin, no metal, and the test numbers printed because a parent cannot check any of it.
- No dye and no bleach at all, so the azo question cannot arise
- Free formaldehyde under 16 mg per kg to ISO 14184-1, the infant level
- No metal on the garment at all: no nickel release, nothing to chew loose
- No neck cord or tie to EN 14682, seams turned outward, no sewn-in labels
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Details
A jhabla and nappy pant in 55 GSM mul-mul woven in the Phulia cluster, Nadia district, West Bengal, left undyed in its natural unbleached cream. Mul-mul is here for a physical reason, not a rustic one: it is an open plain weave with very high air permeability, and a newborn cannot regulate its own temperature and cannot tell you it is overheating. Heat and damp have to be able to leave the cloth on their own. That is the whole argument for it. This is the category where a parent can verify nothing, so the numbers are printed. The cheats are specific and they are not small. Azo dyes release aromatic amines that are restricted in India and the EU, and they are used on infant wear because bright colours sell. Formaldehyde resin is applied to stop creasing on the shelf and sits against skin that has no barrier yet. Optical brightener is sprayed on to fake a pure white, and washes out in weeks. Starch is loaded into a cloth this light to fake weight, then leaves in the first wash and the jhabla goes limp. And plastic snaps and nickel-plated poppers are put on a garment that is pulled at and chewed.
- No dye at all. Undyed and unbleached, so no azo question arises and none can arise.
- Free formaldehyde below 16 mg per kg, tested to ISO 14184-1, which is the infant level, not the general one
- No optical brightener, screened by UV fluorescence
- Size content under 1 percent after desizing, so the weight you feel is cloth
- No metal anywhere on the garment, so no nickel release question, and nothing to chew loose
- No cord or tie at the neck at any age, to EN 14682. The jhabla closes with flat cotton tapes at the SIDE.
- Seams turned outward so no join touches skin, and no labels sewn in anywhere
- 100 percent cotton by ISO 1833, washed three times before packing
- Undyed cream is not a bright white and will never be one. Sun it to lighten it; bleach weakens mul-mul.
- Mul-mul creases the moment it is folded, and it is an open weave, so it is deliberately not opaque
- It has been washed three times already and about 2 percent more will still go on the first wash at home
Product information
Size chart, by baby height in cm
- How to read it
- Choose by the baby's HEIGHT first, not by age. Height and chest are BODY measurements; the garment figures are the finished garment, laid flat and doubled.
- 0-3 M
- Body height 50 to 60 cm, body chest 40 to 43 cm. Garment chest 48 cm, jhabla length 30 cm, nappy pant waist 40 cm relaxed, pant length 22 cm.
- 3-6 M
- Body height 60 to 68 cm, body chest 43 to 45 cm. Garment chest 52 cm, jhabla length 33 cm, nappy pant waist 43 cm relaxed, pant length 25 cm.
- 6-12 M
- Body height 68 to 76 cm, body chest 45 to 48 cm. Garment chest 56 cm, jhabla length 36 cm, nappy pant waist 46 cm relaxed, pant length 28 cm.
- 12-18 M
- Body height 76 to 83 cm, body chest 48 to 50 cm. Garment chest 60 cm, jhabla length 39 cm, nappy pant waist 49 cm relaxed, pant length 31 cm.
- 18-24 M
- Body height 83 to 90 cm, body chest 50 to 52 cm. Garment chest 64 cm, jhabla length 42 cm, nappy pant waist 52 cm relaxed, pant length 34 cm.
- Ease
- Garment chest runs 8 to 12 cm over the body chest, because a jhabla goes over a nappy and must not be close-fitting
- Between sizes
- Take the larger. A jhabla is meant to be loose and the cloth has 2 percent still to shrink.
- Tolerance
- Plus or minus 1 cm
Safety, fibre and construction
- Dye
- None. Undyed and unbleached natural cream.
- Azo dyes
- Not applicable, there is no dye. Screened to EN 14362-1 regardless, nothing detected.
- Formaldehyde
- Below 16 mg per kg free formaldehyde, ISO 14184-1, at the infant level
- Optical brightener
- None, screened by UV fluorescence
- Metal and fasteners
- None. No snaps, no poppers, no buttons, so no nickel release question.
- Cords
- No cord or tie at the neck at any size, to EN 14682. Flat cotton tapes at the side only.
- Seams
- Turned outward, so no seam allowance touches skin
- Labels
- None sewn in anywhere. Care is printed on the kraft tag.
- Fibre composition
- 100 percent cotton, tested to ISO 1833
- Weight
- 55 GSM single layer, measured to ISO 3801
- Why mul-mul
- Open plain weave with high air permeability. A newborn cannot regulate temperature, so heat and damp must leave the cloth unaided.
- Size content
- Under 1 percent after desizing, no starch faking the weight
- Residual shrinkage
- Washed three times before packing, about 2 percent left, ISO 6330
- Set contents
- Two jhablas and two nappy pants
Care, and what it will honestly do
- Wash
- Machine wash warm with a mild detergent, no fabric softener
- Sanitising
- Safe to boil-wash. There is no dye to lose and no elastane to perish.
- Dry
- Sun dry. Sunlight is the only safe whitener for undyed cotton.
- Bleach
- No chlorine bleach. It whitens mul-mul once and weakens the fibre for good.
- Creasing
- Mul-mul creases as soon as it is folded. Nothing has been put on the cloth to stop that.
- Opacity
- An open weave at 55 GSM is not opaque, which is the same property that makes it breathe
- First home wash
- About 2 percent more will go, which the cut already allows for
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