History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c26.s1.t2.2

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There is an interesting indoor variation in use to create a draft, whose antiquity is not known. This employs a large sheet of cloth, two adjacent corners of which are loosely pegged to the ground. The other end is flapped up and down by a standing woman, and seeds to be cleaned are slowly dropped, from above the pegged ends of the cloth, into the air currents so created.