The Queensland people have recently uimd by experiment that'there is- r -.lire in the loaves of the pincappli vliich may be used in the production i' a hind of silky cloth. This lias, ■mvfivcr, been known for some time -< .Manila, where the native girls an Ir.itc clever in making what looks like caarsc, silky chill'on from pineapph ibre. Ono of tho prottiest frock::>rn at a. recent Chicago wedding v/rui">!o of this material, on which r, .•ill black spot had been embroidered, •r.l many curious questions were askcu to tho nature of tho lovely toilurc.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19070930.2.53.1
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 4, 30 September 1907, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
94Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 4, 30 September 1907, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in