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2. Barkcloth - Wikipedia

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   Barkcloth or bark cloth is a versatile material that was once common in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. Barkcloth comes primarily from trees of the family Moraceae, including Broussonetia papyrifera, Artocarpus altilis, Artocarpus tamaran, and Ficus natalensis. It is made by beating sodden strips of the fibrous inner bark of these trees into ...

3. Bark cloth - Wikipedia

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   Bark cloth may refer to: Barkcloth, made from tree bark in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific; also a variety of cotton cloth; Cedar bark textile, used by indigenous people in the Pacific Northwest; Tapa cloth, a cloth made from the bark of the paper mulberry tree; Amate, a Mesoamerican bark paper, typically made with the bark of fig (ficus) trees

4. Cedar bark textile - Wikipedia

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   The resulting felted strips of bark were soft and could be plaited, sewn, or woven into a variety of fabrics that were either dense and watertight, or soft and comfortable. [2] Women wore skirts and capes of red cedar bark, while men wore long capes of cedar bark into which some mountain goat wool was woven for decorative effect. [1]

5. Machine quilting - Wikipedia

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   Free-motion quilting is a process used to stitch the layers of a quilt together using a domestic sewing machine with the feed dogs lowered, with a darning foot installed. When the feed dogs are lowered they do not advance the fabric ; and with the darning foot merely hovering over the layers, the operator controls the stitch length as well as ...

6. Textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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   Textile arts and fiber arts include fabric that is flexible woven material, as well as felt, bark cloth, knitting, embroidery, [1] featherwork, skin-sewing, beadwork, and similar media. Textile arts are one of the earliest known industries. [1] Basketry is associated with textile arts. [2]

7. African textiles - Wikipedia

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   Bark cloth: Bark cloth has ceremonial and ritual importance for the Baganda in Uganda as well as in Cameroon and the Congo. It is one of the first fabrics made in tropical areas of Sub-saharan Africa, specifically Central Africa. Bark from the tropical fig tree is stripped from the tree once a year and then sustainably regrows.