Gunny cloth is woven of numerous qualities, according to the purpose to which it is devoted. Some kinds are made close and dense in texture, for carrying such seed as poppy or rape and sugar; others less close are used for rice, pulses, and seeds of like size, and coarser and opener kinds again are woven for the outer cover of packages and for the sails of country boats. There is a thin close-woven cloth made and used as garments among the females of the aboriginal tribes near the foot of the Himalayas, and in various localities a cloth of pure jute or of jute mixed with cotton is used as a sheet to sleep on, as well as for wearing purposes. To indicate the variety of uses to which jute is applied, the following quotation may be cited from the official report of Hem Chunder Kerr as applying to Midnapur. "The articles manufactured from jute are principally (1) gunny bags; (2) string, rope and cord; (3) _kampa_, a net-like bag for carrying wood or hay on bullocks; (4) _chat_, a strip of stuff for tying bales of cotton or cloth; (5) _dola_, a swing on which infants are rocked to sleep; (6) _shika_, a kind of hanging shelf for little earthen pots, &c.; (7) _dulina_, a floor-cloth; (8) _beera_, a small circular stand for wooden plates used particularly in _poojahs_; (9) painter's brush and brush for white-washing; (10) _ghunsi_, a waist-band worn next to the skin; (11) _gochh-dari_, a hair-band worn by women; (12) _mukbar_, a net bag used as muzzle for cattle; (13) _parchula_, false hair worn by players; (14) _rakhi-bandhan_, a slender arm-band worn at the Rakhi-poornima festival; and (15) _dhup_, small incense sticks burned at _poojahs_." The fibre began to receive attention in Great Britain towards the close of the 18th century, and early in the 19th century it was spun into yarn and woven into cloth in the town of Abingdon. It is claimed that this was the first British town to manufacture the material. For years small quantities of jute were imported into Great Britain and other European countries and into America, but it was not until the year 1832 that the fibre may be said to have made any great impression in Great Britain. The first really practical experiments with the fibre were made in this year in Chapelshade Works, Dundee, and these experiments proved to be the foundation of an enormous industry. It is interesting to note that the site of Chapelshade Works was in 1907 cleared for the erection of a large new technical college.