The given sentence is missing in the paragraph below. Decide where it best fits among the options $1,2,3$, or $4$ indicated in the paragraph.
Sentence - The region's Western customers found it hard to believe that Dhaka muslin could possibly have been made by human hands - there were rumour that it was woven by mermaids, fairies and even ghosts.
Once upon the silty banks of the Meghna River, a miracle was spun - a fabric so light it was called "baft-hawa", or woven air. This was Dhaka Muslin - the world's most coveted cloth.
$\_\_\_\_(1) \_\_\_\_$ . Handspun from a rare cotton called Phuti Karpas, found nowhere else on Earth, and woven with a $16$-step sacred ritual - beginning with cleaning the cotton using the teeth of a river catfish! $\_\_\_\_(2) \_\_\_\_$ . Every spring, the maple-like leaves pushed up through the grey, silty soil to produce a single daffodilyellow flower twice a year, which gave way to a snowy floret of cotton fibres. $\_\_\_\_(3)\_\_\_\_$ . Spun at dawn on boats by sharp-eyed young women, its threads were so fine the elderly could barely see them. Motifs of wildflowers, river breeze, and soul were etched into each piece - some so light, a $91$-metre bolt could pass through a ring, or a $60^{\prime}$ length fit inside a snuffbox. It draped Greek goddesses, Roman nobles, Mughal emperors, and European aristocrats. Marie Antoinette, Empress Joséphine even Jane Austen adored its floating grace. $\_\_\_\_(4)\_\_\_\_$.
- Option $4$
- Option $1$
- Option $3$
- Option $2$