and the Processes used for Dyeing Silk and Cotton, 265 



boil it for two hours. Then cool it, and having washed it 

 in the tank, dry it either in the shade or 'Sun, indiflerently. 

 This is a pretty colour, fixes well, and is cheaper than that 

 of the lac. 



To dye their silk yellow, the piitivegars use turmeric. 

 For 3 seers {\^^zji-\h.) of silk, take 4 seers (2-j*bVo^b.) of tur- 

 meric, powdered and sifted : make it into a paste with water, 

 adding 4 dudtis weight (f-p'o-Jo-^^-) of sesamumoW. Divide 

 the paste iiUo three portions, one of whi.-h is to be put into 

 a pot with 8 seers (549 cubical inches) of warm water. In 

 this immerse the silk prepared as before, and continue the 

 operation cxacily in the same manner as with the capUi 

 paste. It must, however, he dried in the shade, and thie 

 colour then stands very well; which it would not do, were 

 it dried in the sun. 



The piittticgars give their yellow silk to the niiigaru, who 

 dye it with indigo. It is then washed by the puttuegarsix^ 

 the infusion of tamarinds, and jiftervvards is of a fine creen 

 colour ; which, if it be dried in the shade, is tolerably weli 

 fixed. 



The jiiUgaru dye all the other colours ; such as light and 

 dark blue, sky blue, and purple. The silk is never dyed m, 

 the piece. 



The red and orange- coloured silks are mostly in demand. 



Some weavers called cuttery, who pretcn^ to be of the 

 Kshatriya cast, manufacture exactly the same kinds of good* 

 as the puttuegars, ^ 



The whole of the demand for these goods, according to 

 the account of the manufacturers, is in the counrry formerly 

 belonging to Tip^:)oo : Seringapatam, Gubi, Nagara, Chat- 

 rakal, and Chin'-rayapattana, are the principal marts. 

 When the goods are in much deniand, it is customary for 

 the merchant to advance one half, or e%'en the wholc^ 

 of the price of the goods which he commissions ; but when 

 the demand is small, the manufacturers borrow money froiii 

 the bankers at two per cent, a month, and n)ake goods, 

 which they sell to the merchants of the place. They never 

 carry them to the public market. The silk is all imported 

 in the r^w state by the merchants of this place, 



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