HJO On the Mantifacture^ carried on at Bangalore, 



have sometimes striped or silver borders^ and are always 

 oriiamcuteci with silver at the euds. They are used by men 

 to wrap round their shoulders. 



IV. Turbans IVom 30 to 100 cubits in length, and from 

 -J^ to 1 cubit in widths and ornamented with silver and gold 

 thread at the cnds^ 



Each kind ot cloth has several patterns, and each pattern 

 is of three degrees of fineness^ which, in the technical lan- 

 guage of European merchants in India, are marked by the 

 letters A. B. and C* 



These people say, that they receive advances from the 

 uicrchants, and borrow money from the bankers, in the 

 same manner as the pnttuegars Aoi Where the cloth is 

 made on the weaver's own account^ it is sold partly to mer- 

 chants and partly in the weekly markets. When a weaver 

 receives advances, he cannot sell any cloth till his contract 

 be fullilled. Among the Padma shalay there are few ser- 

 vants employed; but all the males of a family live together, 

 and work in the same house, very seldom engaging them- 

 belves to work out for hire. The Samay shalay keep more 

 servants. The people of these two classes live better than 

 those employed in agriculture* A man at fine work can 

 gain difanain (rather more than 8<i.) a day. At coarse work 

 a man cannot make above Zd* a day. The servants live in 

 their own houses ; but, although paid by the piece, they 

 are generally in debt to tl>eir masters, and are consequently 

 bound in the same manner as the servants of the fiirmers* 

 This circumstance is applicable to journeymen weavers of 

 every kind. 



The togotaru are a class of weavers that make a coarse, 

 thick, white cotton cloth with red borders, which among 

 the poorer class of inhabitants is used as the common waist- 

 jqloths of all ages and sexes. This kind of cloth goes by the 

 name of the maaufacturcrs who weave it, and is also of 

 three degrees of fineness. 



The same people tnake rornah, or handkerchiefs with red 

 borders, from three to five cubits square, that arc commonly 

 used by the poor as a head-dress. The pieces are about 

 twenty cubili long, and are divided into a greater or smaller 



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