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Show IR/ARa V Sailko FOR many years previous to my visit to India I had collected ever scrap of material that had been written about the handmade paper p Liss of tovns and villages where the work was said to be in operation. Papermaking by hand in India, however, has undergone such a change durin the past few years that an accoun of localitis, workers, production, vag b e e s oo accepted only as a history of the craft. Upon reaching India I fou d tha ‘my lists of papermaking centres, com| ipiled only a year or s0 ago, were of n value whatsoever, as many of the places had ceased production entirely Throughout the history of papermaking in India, however, T had alway seen the name Sailkot mentioned as one of the prominent places where thi craft was carried on, and T desired greatly to visit that ci Aocmdmg 0 e pamphict pablisheix-Lahore in 1908 there were ar 1881, as many as one hundre and seventy pape ing estabe Sailkot, employing one thousand and ninety-one men. Fro the same treatis we find that i the year 1907 there were bux twenty-cigh est blishments, employing but fift ics, the autho of the monograph s kot till the chief centre, and until a few years ago the manufactur ried on in three villages close to the city and situated on the hill torrent Ak, Of these Hirapur has ceasd to be centre, and paper s now mad mxly in Rangpura and Nekapura el Mgph o Popmalis et i Ml Gl xd ity Gt s, i, (5. i he Pinja, 19071008, Lahore, Printe at the Emerson [57 Digital image© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rights reserved |
