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The Puttuegars make also, in a variety of figured patterns, the CHAPTER 
first three kinds of dresses of silk and cotton. 
They also make Sada Putaynshina , or thin white muslins with June 22, &<q 
silk borders. These are either plain, or dotted in the loom with 
silk or cotton thread; and are frequently ornamented with gold and 
silver. This is an elegant manufacture, and is fitted for the first 
five kinds of dresses. 
Plain green muslin with silk borders for the first three kinds of 
dresses, is also made by th q Puttuegars ; but not of so fine a quality 
as that made by the Devangas, as will be afterwards mentioned. 
The same may be said of the coloured striped muslin with silk 
borders, called Dutari Hnvina, which is used also entirely for female 
dresses, and is wrought of various patterns. 
The Puttuegars dye much of their own silk; and they gave me Art of dyeing) 
the following account of their processes. TvTifc °rtrs. 
The silk is thus prepared for dyeing, the operation beingperformed 
sometimes on the raw material, and sometimes on the thread. Take 
5 Seers 3 T VoV lb. of silk, 3 Seers (l T VoV lb.} of Soulu, or impure soda, 
and !■§■ (OyVo^lb.) of quick-lime ; mix the soda and lime, with 4 or 
5 Seers, or about 308 cubical inches, ^ of water; and boil them for 
half an hour. One half of the boiling ley is poured into a wide- 
mouthed pot, and one half of the silk is immediately put into it 
suspended on a stick. If it be not sufficiently wet, it will not take 
the colour: and, if it be allowed to remain any length of time, the 
silk is destroyed. The rest of the silk is now dipt into the remain- 
ing ley ; then washed in cold water, and dried in the sun. 
If a white silk be wanted, take three Seers lb.) of prepared 
silk, 3 Seers of Soulu, or impure soda, 1 'Ditdu weight (b T 4 oVo drams 
avoirdupois) of indigo, and 18 Seers (about 1235 cubical inches) of 
water ; boil them for about two hours. Then wash the boiled silk 
in some hot water, and dry it. In this operation much care is ne- 
cessary ; as by too much of the Soda the silk is apt to be spoiled, 
and, if it be boiled too short a time, it will not be sufficiently white. 
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