Identifier: indiancotton00inte (find matches)
Title: Indian cotton
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: International Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Associations Pearse, Arno Smith, 1872-
Subjects: Cotton manufacture Cotton trade
Publisher: (Manchester)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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product is required, should with advantage to Indiabe left to the West. COTTON SPINNING AND WEAVING BY HAND. Cotton spinning by hand is rapidly dying out ; it is only carriedon in some remote villages; on my journey I saw hand spinningin a few villages of Burma, Madras, and the North-western FrontierProvince. The yarn produced by the hand wheel is very Uneven,coarse, and very much dearer than machine-spun yarn. The yarn spunby the cotton mills in India is principally coarse, 8s- to 12s- for usein the hand loom. Hand weaving is, next to agriculture, the industrywhich employs most people in India. It is maintained by many thatthis industry is fast making room for the power loom, but I am in-clined to think that, as regards coarse goods, the hand loom has norival. In the Indian Trade Journal (Aug. 21, 1913) the averageyearly production of hand-loom cloth was stated tobe278,742,4841bs.from 1910/1912, whilst 248,418,423lbs. was given as the average forthe years 1896/99. INDIAN COTTON. 215
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Photo by Bieuiner & Co., Lahore. A woman of Cashmere spinning cotton yarn. « 9 1: f #ii 1 w mm 4 Weaving in the North-west Frontier Province. fTTie weaver »5 seated in a hole dug in the ground and works the shafts with his feet.) 216 INDIAN COTTON. It must be remembered that the cost of the native loom is trifling.An Indian authority says that the capital of a weavers business ismade up as follows :— Rs. Cost of loom Warping sticks Winding wheel Yarn for two pieces Shop Rs. 2 8 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 11 12 0 = 15s. 8d. Tt must be remembered that the weaver is not solely occupied onhis loom. He attends to the household duties, to field duties, and inmany cases the owner of a loom weaves only, as it were, to fill up leisurehours, just as so much knitting is done in Europe. There is no exciseduty payable on cloth produced by hand looms, whilst cloth producedby power looms pays 3J per cent, on the value. The Indian powerlooms contribute yearly slightly over £3 per loom, accord

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