Statistical Report on the 



[No. 35, 



A discrepancy will be observed between this statement of the 

 revenue and the one I previously gave in my report of last year ; 

 but in calculating them I had only data partly conjectural, and partly 

 what the Circar yielded when under European superintendence, to 

 go on. Two bad years, 1845 and 1846, with a change of Talook- 

 dars have contributed to lower the revenue. 



The chief of the manufactures and the only one 

 for which V/arungul is famed is that of Persian 

 carpets which are made of all sizes and of worsted cotton, or even 

 of silk. 



The weavers are all Mahometans and are congregated principally 

 at Mutwarrah, although there are a few looms within the Warungul 

 fort. The method of weaving these carpets has been often described, 

 and will at once be seen by a reference to the Plate. 



The weavers are a set of drunken, turbulent, ignorant Mussulmauns, 

 possessing no capital, but dissipating in excess the little money they 

 may procure on accomplishing a piece of work. Carpets, chiefly of 

 a small size about two yards long and a little more than a yard in 

 breadth, are made for the Hyderabad market — money being advanced 

 to the weavers by the dealers there. A worsted carpet of this size 

 and shape costs at Warungul from rupees 2^ to rupees 2 J. A cotton 

 carpet is twice the expense of a worsted. A silk one is very highly 

 priced — a common trick among the weavers is to substitute sunn for 

 worsted. 



There is a coarse cotton cloth manufactured, called cadee, in 

 pieces of nine and twelve yards in length and a yard in breadth, of 

 the price of two or three annas a yard, according to its texture, also 

 cotton sarees of the length of ten yards, and a yard and a half in 

 width from 2 to 3 rupees. When colored they are valued at rupees 4 

 and rupees 5, according to the color with which they are dyed — the 

 madder and cherwil being deemed the fastest and most expensive 

 dyes. When the border is ornamented with embroidery, or woven 

 with silk, the piece is seven rupees. Silk cloth, of the width of the 

 curtailed guz, is manufactured and sold for 12 annas a yard, but 

 the quality is very inferior. It is dyed red with lac, green with 

 indigo and turmeric, or yellow with turmeric alone. The tusser 

 cloth manufactured is one half the value of the silk. Chowlees, 

 (women's breast cloths) are manufactured but not in sufficient 



