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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...red, and indigo and lac chocolate, while the green, which is the only non-permanent dye used in the district, is prepared with a decoction of bakosh (adha toda vasica) and sawdust of jackwood, the silk, before dipping, being steeped in alum. Eeeling is essentially a home and cottage industry, and one may often find the poorest old grandmother earning a few pice a day by winding the almost worthless silk of defective or pierced cocoons, though their produce can be used to make a coarse garment called a matka, which Mahratta women like to put on after morning bath. The women help also in making the pieces known as banhus, which are really spotted corahs, and find their chief sale among the women of the North-west Provinces and the Punjab. To produce the spots or rings of white upon a colour, the length of silk is taken, and the woman with a deftly-tied knot raises a series of tight little lumps upon its whole surface. The piece is then dyed, and when the spots are undone, regularly placed white spots are found to have been left. Very little silk printing is now done here, though, if it is executed, it is r done in elementary primitiveness, and the parts to be left undyed are merely traced out in clay paste. Three colours are sometimes used in this way on the one piece. Curiously enough, however, the sex is allowed very little share in the collection of the wild or " tasser " silk. These cocoons are mostly gathered and brought in by the Santals, who have learnt, with that curious habit of close observation which seems to be an heritage of all woodland folk, to note where the insects are spinning, while they are hunting bigger game or cutting fuel. The actual harvesting is attended by many superstitions, and the women may neither assist in the labour,...
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- PublisherGeneral Books
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 115488919X
- ISBN 13 9781154889192
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages90
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