102 



BRAZILIAN COTTON 



The Landing Stage at Januario 



also hand-weaving. Pillow-lace making is one of the princij)al occu- 

 pations for women and children in all these villages and the photograph 

 below shows mother and child at work. Coats' sewing thread is given 

 the preference over the Pedra thread of Brazilian manufacture, was 

 the information given by these women, but Coats' thread was dearer 

 and more difficult to obtain. 



The left side of the river in Minas is more fertile than the right 

 side, as there is more water on the left. For this reason the virgin 



The Makmg of Pillow-Lace is a great Domestic Industry all along 

 the Sao Francisco River and in the whole of North Brazil 



