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    Textile (redirect from Rag (cloth))
    stuffing, as is kapok. Fibers from pulpwood trees, cotton, rice, hemp, and nettle are used in making paper. Cotton, flax, jute, hemp, modal, banana, bamboo...
    123 KB (10,601 words) - 22:35, 11 November 2024
  • Grass cloth (China grass cloth, ) is an umbrella term for many handloom cloths made with yarns from several vegetable fibers such as hemp, ramie, nettle fiber...
    3 KB (305 words) - 21:52, 1 October 2023
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    Pipturus is a flowering plant genus in the nettle family, Urticaceae. Pipturus albidus (Hook. & Arn.) A.Gray ex H.Mann – Māmaki (Hawaii) Pipturus arborescens...
    2 KB (76 words) - 04:02, 25 October 2023
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    sinuata (meaning "tree nettle" with "wavy leaf margin" in Greek) is a poisonous plant called pulutus, pulus, stinging tree, fever nettle,[citation needed]...
    9 KB (959 words) - 15:11, 16 August 2024
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    RAY-mee; from Malay rami), Boehmeria nivea, is a flowering plant in the nettle family Urticaceae, native to eastern Asia. It is an herbaceous perennial...
    12 KB (1,444 words) - 14:35, 9 November 2024
  • Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985), known within the movement as Do and Ti. Nettles and Applewhite first met in 1972 and went...
    68 KB (7,842 words) - 13:36, 15 November 2024
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    (figs) and Artocarpus. Barkcloth was also occasionally made from Pipturus nettles, especially in Hawaii. However, the highest quality of barkcloth was from...
    18 KB (1,977 words) - 08:50, 31 August 2024
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    crops grown for their fibers, which are traditionally used to make paper, cloth, or rope. Fiber crops are characterized by having a large concentration...
    8 KB (873 words) - 09:16, 30 October 2024
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    Japanese narrow-loomed cloth. It is used to make traditional Japanese clothes, textile room dividers, sails, and other traditional cloth items. Tanmono ("mono"...
    42 KB (4,228 words) - 15:30, 2 November 2024
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    known as Waimea pipturus in English, is a species of flowering plant in the nettle family, Urticaceae, that is endemic to Hawaiʻi. It inhabits coastal mesic...
    5 KB (343 words) - 06:38, 2 September 2024
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    coloured, soft but tough fabric. High quality fabrics were also woven from nettle stems; poppy-stem fibre was sometimes interwoven with flax, to produce a...
    60 KB (8,062 words) - 11:58, 12 October 2024
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    then yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into cloth which is then converted into useful goods such as clothing, household items...
    45 KB (5,748 words) - 03:25, 7 August 2024
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    hung on the hoop of a cradle board. In old times this netting was made of nettle fiber. Two spider webs were usually hung on the hoop, and it was said that...
    9 KB (939 words) - 19:51, 29 October 2024
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    of four sheaves (the emblem of King Gustav Vasa), four white-enamelled nettle leaves each bearing a shield in white above red (the emblem of Holstein...
    14 KB (1,398 words) - 00:11, 31 October 2024
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    and twisted again intestines of animals, bundled horse hair, fibers from nettle, or certain types of sinew. It is then attached to each end of the wood...
    16 KB (1,918 words) - 18:20, 28 October 2024
  • southernmost Japanese island of Kyūshū would put a branch of willow or Chinese nettle tree, decorated with pieces of mochi (rice cake), into the toilet as an...
    14 KB (1,839 words) - 19:53, 5 August 2024
  • Soft, lightweight Raffia Raffia palm Carpet/rough Ramie Flowering plant in nettle family Heavy, tough Rayon Wood Pulp Soft, lightweight, absorbent Sisal Agave...
    5 KB (170 words) - 17:55, 9 February 2024
  • III: The Elly Kedward Tale). Developed by the now former TRI employee Paul Nettle, originally written using software rendering, but later adapted to use the...
    17 KB (970 words) - 18:41, 12 November 2024
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    plant. Other plant fibers which can be spun include bamboo, hemp, maize, nettle, and soy fiber. The most common spun animal fiber is wool harvested from...
    29 KB (3,383 words) - 16:34, 6 November 2024
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    as the serration of an animal tooth. Tailors use pinking shears to cut cloth with a serrated edge, which, somewhat counterintuitively, reduces fraying...
    3 KB (441 words) - 09:48, 1 July 2023
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