Archive image from page 326 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 Fig. 395. Aramina (Urma Io6oea). established in the United States, and few ramie goods, sold as ramie, are made in this country. It is used extensively for dress goods in China, Japan and Korea, and in Europe its use is increasing for portieres, upholstered furniture, clothing and various other kinds of woven and knit goods, but thus far, excepting the knit ramie underwear made in Eu
Archive image from page 326 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 Fig. 395. Aramina (Urma Io6oea). established in the United States, and few ramie goods, sold as ramie, are made in this country. It is used extensively for dress goods in China, Japan and Korea, and in Europe its use is increasing for portieres, upholstered furniture, clothing and various other kinds of woven and knit goods, but thus far, excepting the knit ramie underwear made in Europe, ramie goods are little known in the United States. RheaiBoehmeria tenacissima), also called ramie, is cultivated to a small extent in India and the East India islands. It differs from B. nivea in hav- ing leaves green on both surfaces, and in requiring a more tropical climate. Aramina. (Fig. 395.) Aramina,aword meaning ' little wire,' is a trade name recently applied in Brazil to the fiber secured from the inner bark of the carrapicho plant, Urena lobata, Linn. (Fig. 395.) This plant is a shrubby perennial, belonging to the Malvacece or Mallow family. It is native in India, but is now widely distributed in the warmer parts of both hemispheres. It is an aggressive weed in Florida, and is there called 'Cassar weed.' Its fiber, obtained in small quantities from wild plants, is used in a domestic way in many places, as for paper and cordage in St. Thome, for cheap cordage in Porto Rico, for sacking and twine in India, tie material for house-building in West Africa, and fishing-nets in Brazil. Only in the Sao Paulo in southern Brazil is the plant regularly cultivated for fiber production on a commercial scale. It is there called 'guaxima.' The fiber is prepared by stripping it by machinery in the field, dry- ing, and shipping to the factory where it is treated chemically and mechanically to prepare it for spinning. It is asserted that it will yield about 900 pounds of fiber pe
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