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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 85

The Indian Palace

The Indian Palace.

A typical Royal Palace and Courtyard, with its "Karkhaneh," or workshop, and Durbar or Audience Hall. The Palace is entered by the Gwalior gateway. The vestibule is draped with Indian printed cottons.

The Silk Court lines half of the curved passage round the Durbar Hall. The products not only of the mulberry silk-worm, but of the "tussar," "muga," and "eria" worms.

Varieties of Silk-Worm. 1. The Mulberry Silk-Worm. 2. The Tussar Worm, the fibre of which is three times as thick as ordinary silk; Tussar silk is the only wild silk imported into England, where the "seal cloth" is a tussar-silk plush woven into a cotton back. 3. The Eria Worm, which feeds on the castor oil plant, and in Assam spins a white silk. The cloth made from it is of incredible durability, lasting through the lifetime of more than one person. Eria fibre is half page 23 the thickness of tussa fibre. 4. The Muga Worm produces silk which receives dye better than either tussar or eria silk. These silks are better spun than reeled.