486 Rorce in Khypoor. [No, 114. 



They are the only colours used in Roree by silk-dyers, and the weavers 

 are ignorant how to produce any pattern or design. 



When the weaver receives thread from the dyer he smears ghee over it 

 to give it strength and flexibility, and applies wheat starch occasionally 

 to the woof with the point of a stick enveloped in cotton rag. 



As far as I could ascertain there are 160 silk looms in Roree which pay 

 a yearly tax of 900 rupees, which is 200 rupees less than the sum realized 

 in the time of the late Meer Sohrab. I visited several loom-shops and 

 found them all in a state of wretchedness and discomfort. The shop from 

 which the description is taken, measured eight feet in length and twelve 

 feet in width, and cost ten Shorabee rupees ; it had a pent roof of reeds, 

 mats, and date leaves in bad repair ; the ends rested on square pillars of 

 sun baked bricks and the middle on posts, and a low door was built in a 

 wall of tamarisk boughs kept together with posts set on end and sticks 

 tied across them. It was no protection from thieves. Work-shops are 

 not, however, built with a view to secure property, and tradesmen and 

 mechanics rarely sleep in them ; they return home at night and carry with 

 them any articles and machinery likely to tempt the cupidity of a thief. 



Cotton weavers have a loom of the same description as silk weavers, 



and worth 3 rupees; 



Rs. A. P. 

 The spinning wheel, .# 1 



The hand wheel 03 



(This is worked by a female whose hire is included in her 



husband's wages of two anas (3d. a day), 1 03 



30 lease rods of Surkunda reed cut in the wilds. 

 The pit in which the weaver sits dug by the weavers. 



The cloth-beam or breast-roll 4| feet in length, 8 £ 



Two posts in which the cloth beam revolves, 2 



The lay cap 3 feet long, 8 



Dootna and Sundulee, part of the heddles, 04 



Two Ruchee part of the heddles, 6 



The 'Reed, ' of split Surkunda reeds, 03 



Two Ponsur, 02 



Two treadles, 2 



Duna, or horizontal beam, 1 



Goats' hair rope to which the end of the warp is fastened,. .005 



Shuttle of kundee wood, and iron reel or needle, 4 f 



Cotton threads and horizontal sticks firming the heddle or 



harness for suspending the loom to the shop-roof, made in 



the shop. — 



Rs. 3 2 



