Die Borametz-Pflanze [The Borametz Plant]
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A short German article by Franz M. Feldhaus on the legendary Borametz, the 'vegetable lamb' plant said to grow lambs, reported from Tartary in 1601. Feldhaus argues the image derives from cotton, drawn as a lamb-shaped seed capsule with white fibers, citing knowledge of plant wool since antiquity, Kyeser's 1405 word 'bawmwol', and Herodotus on Xerxes' soldiers wearing garments woven from a wild plant. The page includes an engraving of the plant and also carries the end of several unrelated textile-chemistry abstracts.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1927
- Language
- German
- Pages
- 1
- Archive notes
- Scanned by John Cropper
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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