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transparent garments, as indicated in the earlier chapter of our
study.
For all type of textile production (Whether thin, painted
or embroidered) normally three stages are there i.e. spinning,
weaving and lace making. That means, textile industries in
Kamrupa might have flourished in combination of three different
type of professionals-spinner, weaver and lace makers. Along with
that two other important vocations are there to survive with the
professions of cloth makings and they are dyeing and embroidery.
In ancient Assam, there was a group of professional known as
Rajak who had earned their bread and butter by using colour
made out of the staff of flower (Kusumba) to the cloths. 57 Supporting
this the Kalika Purana has made number of indirect references
where it asked worshipper to use different coloured cloths for the
use of different deities. As for example, lord Siva and Vishnu need
to be worship with red and blue colour cloth respectively. Eminent
scholar Pradip Chaliha while referring to the list of present dispatch
by Kumar Bhaskar Varman of Kamrupa to Harsha of Thaneshwar,
tried to state that the pillow as smooth as the skin of a deer, might
be a product covering with silken cloth of dyed thread. Along
with that literary evidences are also there to prove the existence of
an embroidery professionals. This time also the Kalika Purana.
serve as the best available literary evidence to support the cause
for the existence of this profession in Kamrupa as it directed the
Worshipper to make gift of embroidery clothes to their respective
deities.
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Chaliha, P. Purani Axamor Karikori Khilpa(As), 1998, p.115.
K.P. 69/9-15.
Chaliha, P. Op-cit, 1998, p.114.