The Textile Digest - Quarterly Journal of the Textile Association (India) January-March 1950

The need of a common platform thus cannot be over-emphasised." He then explained the objectives and activities of the Textile Association (India) and narrated how the Bengal Textile Institute (Sreerampore) Old Boys' Association had organised the functions with the collaboration of Textile Technologists and industrialists and the useful assistance rendered the by Managing Committee of the Textile [...] It is also of that both the spinning and weaving had to be done during the hours of dawn before sun rise by the side of a pond in order to ensure a humid and cool atmosphere as otherwise the yarn would break so remarkably delicate the yarn was ! The reasons for the decline of this flourishing industry of the province are too well-known to be reiterated here in detail. [...] The political subordintion of the country at the time the apathy of the then rulers towards the economic well being of the people and last but not least the industrial revolution in the West brought about a total annihilation of this ancient industry in this province. [...] Speaking of researches the establishment of the West Bengal Branch of the Textile Association can be of much help to the industry. [...] In using such an arrangement the agitator should be stopped so that the surface of the water is level—which is not the case when the agitator is running as the outer surface due to centrifugal force is always 422 THE TEXTILE DIGEST higher than the inner surface near the shaft.