Nettle
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An encyclopedia entry on the nettle (Urtica) from Rees's Cyclopedia. It covers the plant's medicinal and culinary uses, its stinging hairs, and writers who treated it. The section of most interest to textile researchers describes a Leipzig manufacturer's method of making rope and cloth from nettle stalks: drying, bruising, separating the bark, preparing like flax, spinning and boiling the thread. It also notes that nettle fiber is dressed like flax or hemp in parts of Russia and Siberia.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1819
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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