Canvas - Indian Laws - General

Canvas According to Oxford Illustrated Dictionary means: Strong unbleached cloth of hemp or flax, for sails tents, painting on; open kind used as basic for tapestry and embroidery. Encyclopaedia Britannica defines canvas as follows: Canvas a stout which probably derives its name from cannabis and Latin word for hemp . . . All flax canvas is essentially of double warp; for it is invariably intended to withstand some pressure or rough usage. In structure it is similar to jute tarpaulin, bagging tarpaulin, and canvas from an ascending series of cloth, so far as fineness is concerned, although the finest tarpaulins are finer than some of the lower confusions. The cloth may be of natural colour, bleached or dyed, a very common colour being tan. Concise English Dictionary defines canvas as follows: A coarse unbleached cloth made of hemp or flax, formerly used for chitting, now for sails, tents, paintings, etc., sails, the sails of a ship, a sheet of canvas for all the end of a racing-boat. Webster Dictionary defines canvas as follows: Canvas a coarse cloth made of hemp cotton, or flax, used for tents, sail of ships, paintings and other purpose, a clean, unbleached cloth, closely woven in little squares, used for needle-work. Murray s Dictionary defines canvas as follows: A strong or coarse unbleached cloth made of hemp or flax. All kinds of vegetable fibres are used in their production, chief among which are cotton, flax and jute. The yarns are almost invariably two or more ply. Indian Standard Specification for Jute Canvas defines the term Jute Canvas as under: 2-1 Jute Canvas. A plain weave cloth made wholly of jute with double warp and single weft interwoven, weighing not less than 407 g/m. The number of warp threads ends per dm shall be more than 118 and the number of weft threads (picas) per dm shall not less than 55. ALLIED AGENCIES VERSUS COMMISSIONER OF TRADE TAX - 2006 (3) TMI 692 - ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT