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Show "The methods of beating and forming ‘1"» b and finishing, photograph 47, were preciscl them in Sailkot. The wage paid to the wuflm A Do and the output of the mill was stated to be five hundre working day. Here also I was asked about competin el as the dryin Ihi as we foun s st day sh with machinemad paper, and here again I gave my objtulens to the inferior paperma materials they were using; but there will be no change in Delhi pap making, and sooner or later the cr\[{ ‘will die, as it has died in other town and cities of North India. We procured about fifty sheets of the Delhi paper and paid at the rate of five cents a sheet for it, most inferior paper, too Paper specimen No. 4. Upon inquiry we found that the towns of Chitorgarh Udaipur, and Kotah each possessed one single-vat mill, but as the equipmethods employed, and the paper made were exactly th same as i Sailkot and Delhi, I will not enter into a description of these town of insignificant papermaking interest From Delhi we went to Agra, a journey which required three hours I was glad 10 leave Old Delhi, as the city had not greatly pleased me only in secing the Taj Mahal, bu c ith handmade papermaking and I visite the Taj only after weob extmiss the search for the old Agra paper artims. ut that there was one small mill in th he Taj. This place was called Taijang. All da drove in a tanga lhmugh one dusty alley after another, and fro J ing the p ers of Agra. Wherever we inquired the Indiansshook their heads; they e no\_lnng about there ever having bee any papermaking in Taijang. Finally an old bent man guided us to th ruins ofa tannery, set well back in a i laden, grassless yard, the whol place surounded by erumbling mud walls and tuw.nn" s houss, throug the crooked windowsof which half-naked som peered at the intruders; half-starved i bzb:cs with thin, dirt Digital image© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rihts reserved |
