| Clinton G. Gilroy - Engraving - 1845 - 560 pages
...ground, and occasionally washes them until they be clean ; and at the same time picks out with hi* hand the remainder of the pith, until nothing except...and women. The men alone weave it, and perform this labor in the open air with a very rude loom." The fabric made from it is a coarse, but very strong... | |
| John Forbes Royle - Agriculture - 1855 - 444 pages
...them, until they are clean, and at the same time picks out with his hand the remainder of the boon, until nothing except the bark be left. This is then...beaten with a stick to separate and clean the fibres. (' Journ./ i, p. 226.) But when at Bhawani Kudal, in the Coimbatore district, he found a great deal... | |
| Francis Hamilton - India - 1870 - 544 pages
...them on the ground, occasionally washes them until they be clean ; and at the same time picks out with his hand the remainder of the pith, until nothing...perform this labour in the open air with a very rude loom. LcaUiei. * Leather is tanned here by a class of people esteemed of very low cast, and called... | |
| Francis Buchanan, Francis Hamilton - Business & Economics - 1988 - 480 pages
...on the ground, and occasionally washes them until they be clean; and at the same time picks out with his hand the remainder of the pith, until nothing...perform this labour in the open air with a very rude loom. LĀ«ather is tanned here by a class of people esteemed of very low Leather, cast, and called Madigaru.... | |
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