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" ... saturated with the liquor, and then stamped upon, washed with the hand, and then well steeped in the canal. In the plains, the berries of the raynti fruit, stirred up with water, yet not so as to form a lather, are used for washing a soiled shawl.... "
Travels in Kashmir, Ladak, Iskardo, the Countries Adjoining the Mountain ... - Page 131
by Godfrey Thomas Vigne - 1842 - 474 pages
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Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor

1842 - 488 pages
...it is bruised and mixed with about three pints of water, and to this is added a mixture of pigeons' dung, (a piece equal in size to a turkey's egg,) mixed...in again with a wooden pin, dipped in the requisite tinta. The fine pale yellow colour of a new shawl is given by means of sulphur fumes. A hole is made...
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The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of ..., Volume 2; Volume 11

English periodicals - 1842 - 528 pages
...lather, are used for washing a soiled shawl. A smaller root, known also by the name of kriU, is often used for cotton clothes. The colours of a shawl, after...in again with a wooden pin dipped in the requisite tinta. The fine pale yellow colour of a new shawl is given by means of sulphur fumes. A hole is made...
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The Rise, Progress, and Present State of Colonial Wools. Continued from 1846

Thomas Southey (wool broker.) - Wool industry - 1851 - 110 pages
...washing a soiled shawl. A smaller root, known also by the name of kritz, is used for cotton cloths. The colours of a shawl, after it has been washed,...yellow colour of a new shawl is given by means of Bulphur fumes. The fool's cap, or cypress-shaped ornament, so commonly worked on the shawls, is a representation...
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Central Asia: Travels in Cashmere, Little Thibet and Central Asia

Asia, Central - 1874 - 418 pages
...with the liquor, stamped upon, washed with the hand, and then well steeped in the canal. The colors of a shawl, after it has been washed, are often renewed...a wooden pin, dipped in the requisite tints. "The broker, who transacts business between the shawl manufacturer and the merchant, is a person of great...
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Central Asia: Travels in Cashmere, Little Thibet and Central Asia

Bayard Taylor - Asia, Central - 1893 - 348 pages
...with the liquor, stamped upon, washed with the hand, and then well steeped in the canal. The colors of a shawl, after it has been washed, are often renewed...a wooden pin, dipped in the requisite tints. "The broker who transacts business between the shawl manufacturer and the merchant, is a person of great...
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The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volume 11

English periodicals - 1842 - 528 pages
...for washing a soiled shawl. A smaller root, known also by the name of kritz, is often used for colton clothes. The colours of a shawl, after it has been...renewed so well as to deceive any but the initiated, by pi ¡eking them in again with a wooden pin dipped in the requisite tints. The fine pale yellow colour...
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