The textile fibres; their physical, microscopical, and chemical properties (1904)
Matthews, J. Merritt (Joseph Merritt), 1874-1931 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 242
developed, the hairs are stronglybent back at the base. Vegetable silk from Calotropis gigantea. (b) Spots small, no longitudinal markings; walls thicker thanthe foregoing fibre; ridges less noticeable and often apparentlylacking (see 12). 12. (a) Hairs narrowed at the base Hoya viridiflora.… … Fig. 57.—^Vegetable Silk from Beaumontia grandiflora. (Hohnel.) h, base of fibre; s, pointed ends; q, cross-section; m, middle portion of fibre; w, cell-wall; /, longitudinal ridges. (b) Without mesh-like ridges at the base (see 15). 14. (a) Base broader, thin-walled, with obhque, mesh-like…
Textile fibers
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