In this form of special relief, Government advances materials to the weavers to be woven into different kinds of cloths. Government has no doubt to incur a large initial expenditure in the shape of value of materials, and wages for weavers for making these materials into cloths. But all the materials are returned woven into cloths, so that, at the close of the operations, Government has a stock of cloths, which can be disposed of without difficulty on the return of favourable times, and the cost incurred recovered. In this way, Government not only administers relief to a pretty large section of its poor subjects, but keeps up, with little or no cost to itself, the industrial skill of this section of the people." Of proverbs relating to the weaver, one runs to the effect that, "if you want to narrow the breadth of a river, you should plant reeds on its margin; and, if you desire to destroy the sanitation of a village, you should bring weavers to it, and settle them there." When the dyes have to be fixed, and the dyed twist has to be washed, the weavers generally resort to running water, and pollute it. The several processes of twisting and untwisting threads, preparing skeins, etc., make combined labour a necessity in the weaving industry; and, wherever one finds a weaver settlement, he must find there a large number of these people, as is explained by the proverb that "the Chetti (merchant) lost by partnership, while the weaver came to grief by isolation." When plying shuttles in the weaving process, the weavers always use their feet in shifting the warp, by treading on a press. Thus, if a weaver unfortunately happens to have a sore on his foot, it means loss to him; or, as the proverb says, "If a dog gets a sore on its head, it never recovers from it; and even so a weaver who gets a sore on his foot." [133] Salige (wire).--A gotra of Kurni. Saliyan.--The Saliyan weavers of Kornad and Ayyampet, in the Tanjore district, are a Tamil-speaking class, who must not be confused with the Telugu Sales. They afford an interesting example of how a limited number of families, following the same occupation, can crystallise into a separate caste. They claim to have a Puranam relating to their origin, which is said to be found in the Sthalapuranam of the Nalladai temple. They believe that they are the descendants of one Saliya Maha Rishi, a low-caste man, who did service for one Visakar, who was doing penance near Nalladai. Through the grace of the rishi Visakar, Saliya became a rishi, and married two wives. The Saliyans are said to be descended from the offspring of the first wife, and the Mottai Saliyans from the offspring of the second.