A descriptive and historical account of the cotton manufacture of Dacca, in Bengal (1851)
A Former Resident of Dacca · John Mortimer · leaf 31
CHAPTER III. SPINNING. i The cotton in the state of kdpds ( i . e. seeds and wool un¬ separated), is cleaned and prepared by the women who spin the yarn. Fragments of the leaves, stalks, and capsules of the plant are carefully picked out with the fingers, and the wool adhering to the seeds is then… … to the laborious task of cleaning with this instrument, each separate seed of cotton. Having accomplished this, she proceeds to detach the fibres from the seeds. This is done by placing a small quantity of * Silurus boalis, see Hamilton’s “Fishes of the Ganges.”
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