Nardiya
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THE TRIBES and CASTES of BENGAL. Ethnographic Glossary. Printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press. 1891. . |
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[edit] Nardiya
In Bihar this workman is known as "Parcha-Kash." When muslin has been washed and calendered by the Kundigar, it is sent to the Muhammadan Nardiya, 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 Sankha-walah, also a Muhammadan, and generally a Kuti, who places it on a flat board and glazes it by friction with a chank shell.
