MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. 
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IV. Turbans from 30 to 100 cubits in length, and from f to 1 
cubit in width, and ornamented with silver and gold thread at the 
ends. 
Each kind of cloth has several patterns, and each pattern is of 
three degrees of fineness, which, in the technical language of Euro- 
pean merchants in India, are marked by the letters A. B. and C. 
These people say, that they receive advances from the merchants, 
and borrow money from the bankers, in the same manner as the 
Puttuegars do. Where the cloth is made on the weaver’s own ac- 
count, it is sold partly to merchants, and partly in the weekly mar- 
kets. When a weaver receives advances, he cannot sell any cloth 
till his contract be fulfilled. Among the Padma shalay there are few 
servants employed; but all the males of a family live together, and 
work in the same house, very seldom engaging themselves to work 
out for hire. The Samay shalay keep more servants. The people of 
these two classes live better than those employed in agriculture. A 
man at fine work can gain a Fcqiam (rather more than 8 d.) a day. 
At coarse work a man cannot make above 3d. a day. The servants 
live in their own houses; but, although paid by the piece, they are 
generally in debt to their masters, and are consequently bound in the 
same manner as the servants of the farmers. This circumstance is 
applicable to journeymen weavers of every kind. 
The Togotaru are a class of weavers that make a coarse, thick, 
white cotton cloth with red borders, which among the poorer class 
of inhabitants is used as the common waist-cloths of all ages and 
sexes. This kind of cloth goes by the name of the manufacturers 
who weave it, and is also of three degrees of fineness. 
The same people make Romals, or handkerchiefs with red borders, 
from three to five cubits square, that are commonly used by the poor 
as a head dress. The pieces are about twenty cubits long, and are 
divided into a greater or smaller number of handkerchiefs, accord- 
ing to their width. They are also of three degrees of fineness. 
The weavers of this class are poor, and say that they cannot afford 
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CHAPTER 
IV. 
Julie 22, &c. 
Sale of white 
muslins, and 
condition of 
the weavers* 
Togotaru 
cotton cloth 
and weavers. 
