268 On the Manufactures carried on at Bangalore, 



drying the flowers in the sun, and beating them in a mor# 

 tar, and will not keep longer than one year ; the flowers, 

 if carefully packed iii sacks. and well pressed^ may be pre- 

 perved for five years. 



The cossumha colour is given in the following manner : 

 — Take \5 sultany seers (9Vr,lb.) of pure cossvmba powder, 

 and put it on a cloth strainer. Clean it by pouring on wa- 

 ter, and rubbing it with the hand, till the water runs through 

 dear. The coss?imba is then to be spread on a blanket, and 

 mixed with 13 dudus weight (fyrAh^^') ^f ^m'^ car a, and 

 an equal weight oi' soulu, both powdered. They are gather- 

 ed together in the centre oF the blanket, and trodden for an 

 hour by a workman's feet. They are then put upon a cloth 

 utrainer, supported as usual by sticks at the corners y and 

 water is poured on them until it passes through the strainer 

 without colour. This water is divided into three portions : 

 that which came first, that which came in the middle of the 

 operation, and that which can}e last ; the first being of the 

 strongest quality. Then take Oo good limes, or 100 bad 

 ones, cut each into two pieces, beat them in a mortar, and 

 strain their juice, through a cloth, into the pot containing 

 the dye of the first quality. Then put a little water to the 

 skins, beat them again, and strain off the water into the 

 pot containing the second quality of the dye. Then add 

 jTiore water to the lime-skins, and having beat them, strain 

 it into the dye of the worst quality. The cloth to be dyed, 

 having been well washed, is put into this last pot, and boil- 

 ed for an hour and a half. It is then dried in the sun, and 

 dipped into the second quality of dye, but not boiled. It is 

 then dried again, and afterwards kept half an hour in the 

 dye of the first quality. At the end of this time, should 

 the colour not be sufficiently strong, the cloth must be 

 boiled in the dye. It is then dried, and the operation is 

 finished. The cloth commonly dyed is for turbans ; and a 

 turban 60 cubits long requires 1 5 seers of cossumha. 



The only differerice, in the process for dyeing the gulenari, 

 is, that to the pot of the first quality, as prepared for dye- 

 ing cossiimba, is added half a seer (A41 cubical inches) of a 

 decoction of tundu flowers {cedrella toona Roxb. MSS.) 



prepared 



