. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers. Fibers. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 99 one place than another a thicker piece is laid over this place, when the next layer is laid down. The cloth is left to dry during the night, and a part of the moisture being evaporated, the several layers are found to adhere together so that the whole mass may he lifted from the ground in one piece. It is then laid on a long smooth plank of wood prepared for the purpose, and heaten with a wooden instrument ahout a foot long and 3 inch
. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers. Fibers. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 99 one place than another a thicker piece is laid over this place, when the next layer is laid down. The cloth is left to dry during the night, and a part of the moisture being evaporated, the several layers are found to adhere together so that the whole mass may he lifted from the ground in one piece. It is then laid on a long smooth plank of wood prepared for the purpose, and heaten with a wooden instrument ahout a foot long and 3 inches square. Each of the four sides has longitudinal grooves of different degrees of fineness, the depth and width of those on one side heing suffici- ent to receive a small pack thread, the other sides heing liner in a regular gradation, so that the grooves of the last would scarcely admit anything coarser than sewing silk. A long handle is attached, and the cloth is first heaten with its coarser side, and spreads very fast under the strokes; it is then heaten with the other sides suc- cessively, and is then considered fit for use. Sometimes, however, it is made still thinner hy heating, after it has heen several times douhled, with the finest side of. Leaf of Bro'ussonetia papyrifera. the mallet, and it can thus he attenuated until it becomes as fine as muslin. Should the cloth break under this process, it is easily repaired by laying on a piece of bark, which is made to adhere by means of a glutinous substance made from the arrow- root, and this is done with such nicety that the break can hardly be detected. The King of the Friendly Islands had a piece made which was 120 feet wide and 2 miles long, a part of which is now in the Ke w Mus. W. D. Alexander makes statements regarding the manufacture and uses of the Kapa cloth of the Hawaiian Islanders as follows: "This was made of the bark of the paper mulberry or wauke (Broussonetia papyrifera) and of the mamake (Pipturus al
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