[3] Nowadays, longcloth designates a cotton fabric which is of high quality, very soft, coarsely woven, and very often used to make underwear, loincloths and infants' clothing.
[4][5] Ghati was a cloth with a highly glazed surface, refined in texture and strong in strength.
Rahon, a town in the district Jalandhar of Punjab, India, had an excellent reputation for this variety.
[7][8][9] Before English clothes emerged in Punjab, Ghati was used for sheets, shirts, pajamas and angarkha.
[10] Then Ghati was available in plain white and also in various patterns of damascene, flowered and ''Chashma-e-Bulbul'' meaning "Nightingale's eye"[11] Longcloth was also termed as Latha or Lattha[10][12] Latha was preferred for Kashmiri artwork, i.e., Amli work with silk threads.