ABSTRACT
In Bihár this workman is known as ‘Párcha-kash’. When muslin has been washed and calendered by the Kundígar, it is sent to the Muhammadan Nardiyá, who, with a comb made of rattan thorns, arranges and disentangles the threads. He then winds the web on a bamboo reel (nard), and subsequently unrolling and folding the cloth despatches it to the `Sankhawáláh, also a Muhammadan, and generally a Kú_tí, who places it on a flat board and glazes it by friction with a chank shell.
