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Sarees chiefly children's, roomals, &c, are thus stamped. Cotton ro- 

 saees are sewed at Aim ul war rah, sarees are embroidered by tailors 

 throughout the country. 



Raw silk is imported from Madras and manufactured into sarees 

 and women's breast cloths at Mutwarrah, Warungul, Maytpilly 

 and Aimulwarrah, in Elgundel, at Maiduck and other Kusbahs. This 

 manufacture is entirely fur home use, and no great skill or taste is 

 displayed by the weavers, the silk pieces are of a quality inferior to 

 those sold at the same price in the Hydrabad bazar, and were it not 

 for the transit duties, the manufacture would become extinct, the 

 silk cloths are dyed red with the lac dye and yellow with turmeric; 

 no other dyes are used : tusser or jungle silk the produce of a species 

 of saturnia is made into sarees, punchees, and scarfs, at several towns 

 of the Sircar of Warungul. But the chief seat of the tusser manufac- 

 ture is the town of Mahdapore, on the right bank of the Godavery in 

 the Ramgheer Sircar where the moth that yields it is carefully reared, 

 and from whence raw tusser silk is sent to other parts to be woven 

 into cloth. The insect in its grub state is first fed on the tender 

 leaves of the Careya sph^et ica, and, when more grown, on the leaves 

 of the Pentaptera tomentosa ; much watching and attention are be- 

 stowed in rearing the animal, subject as it is to destruction from 

 birds, insects, and squirrels. The tusser cloths produced at Mahda- 

 pore are, in durability and fineness, very inferior to the cloths of the 

 same kind manufactured in Bengal, they are dyed the same colour, 

 and with the same materials as the silks, of^ which they are about one- 

 half the price. At Mahdapore there are seventy to eighty families 

 employed in rearing "the insect and in the manufacture of the cloth, 

 which is prepared principally for the Hydrabad market. The wool- 

 len and cotton carpetfcing of Warungul and Mulwarrah was noted in 

 my first report : there are common cotton carpets dyed blue and red, 

 woven at several places chiefly for home consumption, at Mulwarrah, 

 Maiduck, Aimulwarrah, he, there is no other woollens manufactured 

 with the exception of very coarse cumlees, and numdahs, which are 

 made in every village by the Coorewars and other low castes : their 

 cost is very low, from rupees 1 to eight annas each. Gunny bags 

 are manufactured from sunn. All over Telinganah, the pottery is 

 exceedingly coarse and shapeless with little attempt at decoration: the 

 red gurrah and lota when the clay contains much iron, and dark co- 

 loured when the proportion is less are met with from the Manjerah to 

 the eastern frontier, and from the Kistnah to the Godavery. Bricks 



