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 made at Chiknayakanhalli. White sheets are made at Chittledrag, and cotton goods of all sorts at Harihar.

The weavers and dyers of Bangalore, who formerly woiked for the court of Seringapatam, still manufacture the printed cotton cloths which were always their specialty.

At Madura large quantities of the stained cloths for which it is celebrated are manufactured. They are very coarse, and printed in only two colors, red and black, with mythological subjects taken from the Ramayana and Mahabharata. They are made chiefly for the service of the temples, and are very rare to get, except by favor of the priests. Sometimes they are touched up in yellow by hand painting. The whole district is also noted for handsome turbans bordered with gold lace, made at Dindigal, and Madura itself.

Coarse cloth is woven all over Kurg. In the village of Sirangala are made the shawls and kamarbands [waist-cloths] worn in Kurg. A fine description of cloth is woven at Kodlipet.

Dr. Forbes Watson’s Classification of the Textile Fabrics of India.

Dr. Forbes Watson, in his exhaustive work on The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India, which embodies the results of the experience and research of a life- time, classes together the manufacturers in cotton, silk, and wool which are made up on the loom as garments, such as turban cloths, and the dhoti, a flowing cloth bound generally round the waist and legs. It is generally bordered with purple or red, blue or green, like the toga prcetexta [limbo purpureo circumdata], and in Mysore the dhoti is called togataru. The sari, used by the women, is also loom-made, and is the undoubted KaXv^a of Homer. Thus Thetis [II. xxiv. 93, 94] — • “Veiled her head in sable shade, Which flowing long her graceful person clad.”

Kerchiefs, and waistbands [kamarbands], and sashes [dopatfas],