History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c23.s4.35

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The level at which major innovations to the loom begin to taper off is marked at the point when the harness attachment, associated with the drawloom, comes into existence. Functionally, the mechanism of the North, simplistically called the Banaras jala, and that of the South identified through the terms, jhungu and adai, are similar.