Note 60 — CHAP. XXV.
Reading edition
The machine used in the manufacture is very simple, but the fabric is very complete, and executed with tolerable expedition. To make a cottoni requires one hundred and twenty-five drams of silk. Half that quantity is sufficient for a light alléja. The wages of a manufacturer for making the former are sixty paras. The fabric of white silk is technically called in Arabic craishi; the alléja, darekli; the cottoni, dadâr. The ordinary length of each of these is about ten pikes (draa). The width about a pike.