200 



Statistics of tie 



[No. 38, 



silk from the larger to a smaller reel, called the " Pursee," which 

 he accomplishes by fixing one end of the silk to the small reel, and 

 twirling it smartly round in one hand, turns the large wheel iu a 

 contrary direction by the other, assisted by his toes. 



When the skeins are wound off. the silk is again transferred to bob- 

 bins or the 11 kous,'' which is made of a peculiar reed, hollow, and 

 about four inches in length ; the mode adopted for winding these 

 bobbins is effected by the aid of a small wheel, provided with an end- 

 less band passing over a cylinder, in which an iron skewer, or spin- 

 dle is attached : on this spindle the bobbin is fixed, and the end of 

 the silk being made fast to it from the reel, motion is given to the 

 wheel, which causing the bobbin to revolve, winds off the silk. The 

 thread is now ready for fixing in the winding machine : this is 

 composed of three separate portions. The wheel and endless band. 

 The rack frame ; in which the bobbins are placed, and the long 

 cylinder for winding. 



The wheel has circumference of twelve feet, and is turned, by 

 the hand, a cotton band passing over the axle, gives motion to the 

 cylinder on which the threads are wound, whilst a series of smaller 

 bands passing round the circumference of the wheel, and over the 

 cylinders, arranged horizontally in the bobbin rack, sets the bob- 

 bins in motion. 



The rack is formed of a frame work about six feet long, and 

 three feet broad, having two outer longitudinal bars called the 

 M Moondalla," and to inner ones termed the " Chowkala." It is ar- 

 ranged in a sloping direction and supported either by a long bar 

 placed across its front : or fixed between two low posts. The inner 

 bars the " Chowkala" are placed about six inches apart, and con- 

 tain a series of wooden cylinders armed on either side with project- 

 ing iron skewers, or spindles, placed horizontally to each other, and 

 on which the bobbins are fixed, a band from the outer surface of the 

 larger wheel passing over these cylinders, puts them in motion as 

 before observed. The outer bars the " Moondalla" are provided 

 with as many glass rings, or rather portions of broken bangles, as 

 there are spindles, and through them the thread passes, to be wound 

 off upon the winding roller above. 



The long winding roller on which the threads eventually are 

 wound, is called the "Dhol," and is made of light frame work a 

 foot and a half in diameter, having twelve or eighteen sides. It is 

 six feet long, and stands five from the ground ; the axle on which it 



