Islampur Cloth Market

Islampur Cloth Market lies by the Buriganga River near Sadarghat in Old Dhaka and is managed by the Islampur Cloth Merchant Association, which describes it as Bangladesh's largest wholesale cloth market, with origins in the British colonial period. Trade guides note it supplies a large share of the fabric distributed nationwide (share figure from the trade association, to be verified), dealing in sarees, Jamdani silk, georgette and imported piece goods.

Trade is mainly in whole rolls, with bulk deals concentrated in the morning, and covered houses such as Nur Super Market gather many saree and fabric wholesalers. For Chinese exporters of synthetic fabrics, blended cloth, saree materials and garment trimmings, this is the upstream wholesale market for entering Bangladesh's apparel retail and tailor network, where local weavers and importers together shape the country's saree and dress-fabric supply.