364 On the Ma?mfactures carried on at Bangalore, 



infusion through a thick cloth, till about 5 seers (343 cu- 

 bical inches) of clear infusion are procured. Put this into 

 a large open pot with the silk, and warm the^ii until they 

 be raiher too hot for the hand. Take out the silk, and pour 

 into the warm infusion of tamarinds three quaricrs of the 

 decoction of lac, slraiued through a cloth. Then return the 

 silk, and boil it for three hours. After this, examine the 

 silk. If it have received a proper colour, nothing liiore is 

 added ; but if the colour be not deep enough, the remaining 

 decoction is strained, and added by degrees > till the colour 

 is" completed. The pot must then be taken from the fire, 

 and from time to time this silk must be examined with a 

 stick. If the colour be blackish, some tamarind infusion 

 must be added. If too light, it must be again boiled with 

 some more of the decoction of lac: when cool, the silk 

 must be washed in cold tank water, and dried in the shade. 

 This is the finest red dye in use here : in some places cochi- 

 neal is used ; but it is much more expensive. The lac dye 

 is not discharged by washing. 



The puttuegars dye their silk of a pale orange colour, 

 with the capilipodi, or dust collected from the fruit of the 

 roller la tinctoria. For 5 seers of silk (S-ToVo^^*) prepared 

 tor dyeing, take three seers (l-iVoV'^O ^^ cap'di reduced 

 to a fine powder, and sifted through a cloth ; 4 dudus 

 (l^^j_9^oz.) weight of scsamitm oil; 1-^ seer (t2-{Si>--^ oz.) 

 of powdered soulu, or soda; 1 seer (iOtVo^q-oz.) of suja 

 cara, another kind of soda, and three dudus weight 

 (1.^3^3^ oz.) of alum ; — and put them in a pot. Then take 

 2-^ seers (l-rVoV^b.) of soulu, and boil it in about 3^ seers 

 (240 cubical inches) of water, till it be dissolved. With 

 this solution moisten the powders that are in the pot, and 

 form them into a paste, which is to be divided in three 

 equal parts. Put one of these portions in the remaining so«r 

 lution of soulu, and heat it, but not so as to boil. Then 

 put in the silk, prepared as before, and wet it thoroughly. 

 Take it out, and add a little water, and a second portion of 

 the paste. This being dissolved, soak in it the silk as be- 

 fore. Then put in the remainder of the paste with 18 seers 

 (1235 cubical inches) of water; and, replacing the silk, 



boil 



