Reference for Bava Kamma 196:22
לימא מסייע ליה הנותן צמר לצבע
— No, [he gave them] a chest, a box or a cupboard.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For some repair, in the performance of which they were broken. ');"><sup>38</sup></span> But since the concluding clause in the text mentions 'chest, box or cupboard' is it not implied that the opening clause refers to timber? — It may, however, be said that [the later clause] only means to expand the earlier [as follows]: 'In the case where an owner gave craftsmen some articles to set in order and they spoiled them, how would they be liable to pay? As, e.g., where he gave a joiner a chest, a box, or a cupboard.' There is also good reason for supposing that the text [of the latter clause] was merely giving an example. For should you assume that the opening clause refers to timber, after we have been [first] told that [even] in the case of timber they would be liable to pay and that we should not say that the craftsman acquires title to the increase in [value caused by the construction of] the article, what necessity would there be to mention afterwards chest, box and portable turret?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In which case the law is quite evident. ');"><sup>39</sup></span> — If only on account of this, your point could hardly be regarded as proved, for the later clause might have been inserted to reveal the true meaning of the earlier clause, so that you should not think that the earlier clause refers to [the case where he gave the joiner a] chest, box and cupboard, whereas [where he gave him] timber the law would not be so; hence the concluding clause specifically mentions chest, box and cupboard<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For some repair, in the performance of which they were broken. ');"><sup>38</sup></span> to indicate that the opening clause refers to timber, and that even in that case the craftsman would be liable to pay.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And their liability would thus extend to the whole value of the utensils made by them. ');"><sup>37</sup></span> May we say that he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., R. Assi. ');"><sup>40</sup></span> can be supported [from the following]: If wool was given to a dyer