The textile fibres of commerce. A handbook on the occurrence, distribution, preparation, and uses of the animal, vegetable, and mineral fibres used in cotton, woollen, paper, silk, brush, and hat manufactures (1902)
Hannan, William I · London : C. Griffin · leaf 94
branches of the ebony or other trees, superficially, by the middle, and send down on each side some of the same stems, very often a yard long, hanging on both sides, curled or twining, and winding one within another, and resembling an l old man's beard/ whence the common name in Jamaica. The stems… … Fig. 48. — Fibres of Red Cotton Silk (magn.). found among the trees in many parts of Jamaica, but does not grow so commonly there, nor so luxuriantly, as it does in the northern provinces of the main continent, where it is said to overrun whole forests. It is frequently imported from Jamaica to…
Textile fabrics
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