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Show 3 inch apart, In another from Kalpi, United Provinces, the hair stitches ar placed in rows of threes, only five-sixteenths of an inch apart, with a spac of one and one-half inches between the separate rows. Photograph 8 ‘The Moulds of Benga We now come o the fourth and final classification of laid moulds-th Bengal type, which closely resembles those of China and is distinct from al other moulds of India. The typical Bengal mould-frame, photograph g, i made up of five narrow strips of wood, four of these sectionsbcing the actua frame. The four sections are not morticed at the comers as th i case in al other Indian moulds, but are securely joined by thongs o vegetablefibr laced ughuy back and forth over the two separate comers. The fifth sectio ingle xib which is placed across the middle of the four-sided fram o o i Bengal type of mould has als two loose deckle sticks, but, unlike those of other parts of India, the Benga side deckles are usually cut from bamboo. There are no set sizes for Benga ‘moulds, but, as a rule, they are considerably smaller than those of all othe parts of India The mould-covers of Bengal, photograph 10, are made of bamboo strips the material used by the Chinese for this purpose. The Bengal mould-maker use either cotton or horse-hair for the chain-line itches, which vary fro one to two inches. apart. There are usually twelve laid-lines to the inch, cac bamboo reed being approximately one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter about twice the size of the grasses used in Kashmir. The fixed top and bottom deckle sticks are made of bamboo, each being in two sections; these ar laced to the edges of the mould-cover in three scparate places with strips o characteristic formation of the mould-covers it is often possible to distinguis the papers of Bengal from those of other papermaking centres of India, bu |
