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Title: Winter India
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah, 1856-1928
Subjects: India -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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contemptuously through the narrow bazaars.One camel, loaded with baskets, scraped a destroy-ing path through the tortuous lane, tearing downflimsy awnings and curtains, sweeping signs andtrade samples along and tramping them under hisspongy feet, while the shrieks of the despoiled trades-men filled the air. All the way touts dogged our steps. Please comemy shop. Please buy my shop, rang in my earwhenever I stopped to look or to point the camera.They followed us, pleading, if we walked; they leapedoff and on the carriage-step if we drove; and Jao!had no significance to them save when emphasizedby the bearers stick. One persistent nagger droveus almost to frenzy with his lamentations and up-Hraidings whenever we stopped at a shop-front. Webade him Jao! and to stay jao, but he was om-nipresent, and to get rid of him we went to his shop.He had nothing but weather-worn rubbish; andwhile he ran to borrow stock from a neighbor wemade our escape. At the large carpet-factory ninety-seven looms
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AMRITSAR 309 were strung with cotton warp, and little Kashmiriboys, sitting elbow to elbow before them, tied in thewool threads, cut them with miniature scythes, andpressed down the stitches with wooden combs. Aspectacled old Kashmiri, seated behind each curtainof warp-threads, read off the directions for the pat-tern from pages of Kashmir cipher, all understand-ing and following this ancient, conventional cipherby inherited association more easily than any of theclear, mechanical directions devised and used by themanagers of jail carpet-works. Four small boys,with one old man to read the pattern to them, willmake a fine, close, velvet-pile carpet, measuringeleven by thirteen feet, in two months and a half,— acarpet worth twenty-five dollars gold at Amritsar.The design is chosen, the materials allotted, and thecontract let to the reader, who pays each boy threeor four rupees a month. Conventional old Turk-ish and Persian designs are followed. They are firstdrawn in colors, traced on

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