32-i On the Manufactures carried on at Bangalore, 



ture of sheep's dung and water. Next morning it is washed, 

 and then bleached the wliolc day in the sun, having water 

 occasionally. At night it is again put into a mixture of 

 5hcep*s dung and water, to which is added a little quick- 

 lime. Next morning it is waslicd again, and then put into 

 a cold infusion of arulay jnyrohalans, [terminalia arulaj 

 Buch. MSS.) mixed with some gum of the dinduga tree, 

 {Andersonia Panchmomn^ Roxb. MSS.). The quantity of 

 myrohalans for 12 cubits of cloth is 6 dudus weight (2-i*o-o% 

 ounces), and of gum two dudus \\Q\ghi (IG-^Pyi^^^ drachms). 

 The cloth, after being thoroughly wet in this, is taken out, 

 and dried in the sun. It is then folded, placed on a smooth 

 plank, and well beaten with a stick, which serves instead 

 of mangling. 



The mordant for the red dye is as follows : Dissolve in 

 one seer (68 cubical inches) of hot water, dudits weight 

 (2^4^^-6_ ounces) of alum, and \-2dudus weight {^\-^^^ ounces) 

 of dinduga gum. This mordant is poured into a cavity that 

 is made in a block of timber, and covered with four folds 

 of country blanket wcU'moistened wiih the dinduga muci- 

 lage. The wooden blocks for printing are moistened with 

 the mordant, by applying their surfaces to the blankets. The 

 cloth to be printed is laid on a table covered with four folds 

 of old cloth, and the blocks are applied, and pressed dowu 

 by the hand. It is then kept for eight or ten days. 



If the printer wishes to add black to the pattern, the 

 cloth must be again printed with the following mordant. 

 Take 5 seers (3y%3jvlbs.) of iron dross, and 5 seers of old 

 iron, put them into a pot containing rather hiorcthan two ale 

 quarts (2-i- seers) of hoi ka.7iji, or decoction of rice; then add 

 half a seer {^i-^^^^^^omiCQs) of sugar-jagory, and keep it six 

 or seven days. Next add half a seer of dinduga gum rubbed 

 up with a little ghee (boiled butter), and allow it all night 

 to dissolve : the mordant is then fit for use, and is applied 

 in the same manner as the other. After this the cloth re- 

 quires only four days to dry. 



After the mordants have been dried on it, the cloth must 

 be taken to the tank, washed very well, by beating it on a 



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