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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. Textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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   Pieces of 7,000- to 8,000-year-old fabric have been found with human burials at the Windover Archaeological Site in Florida. The burials were in a peat pond. The fabric had turned into peat, but was still identifiable. Many bodies at the site had been wrapped in fabric before burial. Eighty-seven pieces of fabric were found associated with 37 ...

5. African textiles - Wikipedia

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   The embroidery techniques, such as buttonhole stitch and cut-pile embroidery, are often simple, but their intricate effects are a result of the skill-level and final pattern design used. For example, hemmed appliqué is a simple technique still used today where raphia cloth pieces are cut into designs and sewn onto the base fabric. The ...

6. Ficus natalensis - Wikipedia

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   These trees are distributed from north-eastern South Africa to Uganda and Kenya. It is a popular species to cultivate as bonsai due to its fast growth and hardy nature. The bark of the tree is harvested, without harming the tree, to make barkcloth, an environmentally-friendly, renewable material. Skilled artisans incorporate this unique fabric ...

7. Machine quilting - Wikipedia

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   For heirloom machine quilting, the operator uses advanced free-motion techniques. The scale of the work is refined, using smaller threads and needles that allow the use of detailed and complex patterns. Quilts with heirloom machine quilting usually include background quilting which fills the negative space around the designs with dense stitching.

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9. 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]