Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . anufacture where elasticity is not essential can be used as asubstitute for all of these textiles, as well as for flax. It is utilized in themanufacture of celluloid with much success and produces superior paper. As yet, it has not been grown to any extent in any country exceptChina and Japan, owing to the difficulty of decortication. It is asserted thatthe first attempt to decorticate ram
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . anufacture where elasticity is not essential can be used as asubstitute for all of these textiles, as well as for flax. It is utilized in themanufacture of celluloid with much success and produces superior paper. As yet, it has not been grown to any extent in any country exceptChina and Japan, owing to the difficulty of decortication. It is asserted thatthe first attempt to decorticate ramie by machinery was made in India, in OF THE UNITED STATES 199 1816, a flax and hemp machine being sent out from England for that was done during the next fifty years, but about i860 the subject wasresumed, and in France many machines have been invented, having thedecortication of ramie as their object. The Favier machine, the Armand-Barbier, the Michotte, the Landtsheer machines are all undergoing experi-mentation, as are several American machines. Up to the present, themachines have been too costly and too slow in their results to encourage thecultivation of ramie upon a great TEXTILE INDUSTRIES ROPEMAKING AND ROPEMAKING MATERIALS The story of the making of rope must needs be almost as old as thestory of the liuman race. Prehistoric man must have had occasion to usecords or lines from the very earliest times, and ropemaking must haveantedated the weaving of the first textile fabrics. Certain it is that theancient civilized nations were proficient in the art. Upon Egyptian monu-ments are depicted various uses of that material, and specimens of Egyptianropes of hemp covered woven cotton, ropes of palm fibre, made nearlyfour thousand years ago, ropes of papyrus and ropes of plaited leathernthongs are in existence to-day. The Chaldeans, the Assyrians, the Israelites,must also have possessed a knowledge of ropemaking, without which no sail-ing vessel
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