United States. Dept. of Agriculture · [Washington · leaf 68
and fibrils, and fraying their ends asto give them a sort of felting property—quite different, it is true, from what isdescribed as felting, in another part of this report, but still enabling the ends ofthe fragments to unite with one another so as to form a tissue of more or lessconsistency,… … View of a shred of paper, inwhich are beautifully exhibitedthe cylindrical fibresof flax orhemp mingled with the ribbonsof cotton fibre ; also the con-fused mass of ruptured fibrescompletely comminuted. Thisdrawing shows the condition towhich fibres are reduced by therag-engine, and explains…
Flax · Hemp · Textile fibers
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