pottery and brass were also widely used in Bengali art. The style includes many mosques, temples, palaces, forts, monasteries and caravanserais. Mughal Dhaka was known as the City of Mosques and the Venice of the East. Indo-Saracenic architecture flourished during the British period, particularly among the landed gentry. British Calcutta was known as the City of Palaces. Modernist terracotta architecture in South Asia by architects like Muzharul Islam and Louis Kahn. Bengali village housing is noted as the origin of the bungalow. Sculpture Ancient Bengal was home to the Pala-Sena school of Sculptural Art. Ivory sculptural art flourished across the region under the Nawabs of Bengal. Notable modernist sculptors include Novera Ahmed and Nitun Kundu. Lifestyle Textiles Muslin production in Bengal dates back to the 4th century BCE. The region exported the fabric to Ancient Greece and Rome. Bengali silk was known as Ganges Silk in the 13th century Republic of Venice. Mughal Bengal was a major silk exporter. The Bengali silk industry declined after the growth of Japanese silk production. Rajshahi silk continues to be produced in northern Bangladesh. Murshidabad and Malda are the centers of the silk industry in West Bengal. After the reopening of European trade with medieval India, Mughal Bengal became the world's foremost muslin exporter in the 17th century. Mughal-era Dhaka was a center of the worldwide muslin trade. Mughal Bengal's most celebrated artistic tradition was the weaving of Jamdani motifs on fine muslin, which is now classified by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage. Jamdani motifs were similar to Iranian textile art (buta motifs) and Western textile art (paisley). The Jamdani weavers in Dhaka received imperial patronage. Modern Bangladesh is one of the world's largest textile producers, with a large cotton based ready made garments industry. Clothing In rural areas, older women wear the shari with hijab while the younger generation wear the with hijab, both with simple designs. In urban areas, the and the combination of niqab-burqa-chador is more popular, and has distinct fashionable designs. Traditionally urban Bengali men wore the jama, though costumes such as the panjabi with or pyjama have become more popular within the past three centuries. The popularity of the , a shorter upper garment, is undeniable among Bengalis in casual environments. The and are a common combination for rural Bengali men. During special occasions, Bengali women commonly wear either sharis, or abayas, covering their hair with hijab or