Hand spinning -- India; India -- Economic conditions; Manufactures -- India
It is said, that the difficulty of sizing handspun yarn is a serious
handicap from which the movement suffers. As a matter of fact, the
method of sizing it should be no different from that of sizing mill-made
yarn. It is slipshod spinning which is at the bottom of this difficulty.
The best way out of it is to organise and improve the production of
handspun yarn. It is superstition to say that the yarn spun on the
_charkha_ cannot be strong and even. Where proper care is taken, it does
improve and even surpass mill-made yarn in some respects. Punjab and
Marwad, where spinning has been carried on from past times, have also to
improve their yarn. Not that the spinners there do not know their work,
but they as well as the merchants who purchase their yarn are careless
about the quality of the yarn turned out. Unless this work is taken up
by men imbued with the true Swadeshi spirit, the condition is not likely
to improve. The spinners should be visited at their work from time to
time, and proper instructions as to the required twist and test to be
given to the yarn should be imparted to them. The payment of a
reasonably higher wage than the present is another way of improving the
yarn. The wages we have arranged for our guidance are given below in the
form of a table. Where living is cheaper than in Gujarat, they can be
adjusted accordingly. The yarn having improved, the difficulty of sizing
will disappear.
When a country weaver shows inability to weave hand-spun yarn, it means
that he cannot weave it in the same reed space as he uses for the
mill-made yarn. This is quite evident. The hand-spun yarn not being
even, it requires wider reed space. The table given below also shows the
number of ends of different counts to be drawn in an inch of a reed.
Then if the cloth to be woven is meant for shirting or coating and not
for _dhotiyan_ or _sadi_, and if the yarn has a good test, two to four
ends can be added to the number denoted in the table.
Column headings:
C: Count.
T: Approximate twist per inch.
R: Rounds on 4 feet hank frame.
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