Male hemp plants, flax and cotton Historical research about textiles made from bast fibers has progressed in recent years broadening our perspectives of people’s needs for textile raw materials. Despite this, analyses of textiles made of mixed fibers from a variety of plants have not received sufficient attention. Textiles were often made of blends of different plant fibers, which was during historical time common but is rarely mentioned in research, compounding the difficult

Lotus shawl from Ingle-lake in Myanmar (Burma) The wild lotus plant ( Nelumbo nucifera ) has become established in almost all...

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Since the 1990s, we have been working to determine which bast fiber plants are used for making textiles, both historical and modern,...

For several years we have been searching for historical evidence of a complete nettle textile, made locally in Europe but have not yet...

Maori Woman twisting Harake This is a woman from New Zealand twisting yarn from the plant Phormium tenax , which in her local language...

Item 7092: White rustic embroideries are typical for the period, could be made in Hungary but was purchased in Romania (Transylvania). The stitches are ruff and the fabric is made comercial cotton yarn in warp, and home-grown, home-spun hemp in weft. Woven in a rather balanced tabby (11 th/cm).

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