484 Roree in Khypoor. [No. 114. 



The shop measured eleven feet in length and seven in width. The 

 walls were sun baked brick, and timber interlaced with tamarisk boughs, 

 the interstices filled with mud, and the roof of timber covered with 

 reeds and clay. 



The factor paid four workmen from six to ten pys a day (three pence or 

 five pence), but did not employ them regularly ; the vat man who raised 

 the pulp worked only half the day, as his labour is very constant and 

 tiresome, and received two anas (three pence.) The factor does not 

 weigh the tow as he considers it would bring ill-success on his work, 

 and throws into the pit any quantity that is cut. 



Roree receives silk from Persia, and from Bokhara and other parts 

 of Toorkistan. During the war between Shah Shoojah and Dost Mahomed 

 Khan in 1833, the supply was stopped six or eight months and the wea- 

 vers out of employ. The invasion of Afghanistan by the British eight 

 years afterwards, interrupted commerce by the route of Kandahar and 

 the Bolan Pass, but did not interfere with the supply of silk from Cabool 

 which was, on the contrary, in excess of the quantity imported the pre- 

 ceding years, and came as usual, on camels via Peshawur, Dera Ismail, 

 Mooltan, and Bahawulpoor. 



A single hand silk loom can be established in Roree for 4 rupees, or 

 about 8 shillings English. I annex a list of tools and their cost : 



Rs. A. P. 



A Spinning Wheel, 1 40 



Rods of Surkunda reed passed through the warp to preserve 



the shape or lease, cut in the wilds. 

 The pit or workshop, three feet long, two feet wide, and two 



feet deep, dug by the weavers. 

 The cloth-beam or breast roll, a square beam of take wood 

 three feet long, placed over the pit and to which the ends of 



the warp are fastened, 8 



Kite. Two upright posts six inches high which support the 



breast roll and in which it revolves, . 4 



Handle (phirnee) to turn the breast rool, 1 



Sundulee. Two sticks attached to the breast-roll to which the 



warps are fixed, 2 



Hutha. The lay cap 2| feet long, 8 



Phunee. ' The reed ' a sort of comb of split Surkunda reed 



between which the warp passes, 10 



Dootna. Two painted and varnished rollers forming part of 

 the heddles to which the loom is fixed and suspended from 

 the shop roof, 2 



