Stringy Bark Fabrics.
Mats, screens, baskets and rugs woven of the inner filaments of the stringy bairk have been exhibited in Melbourne. The articles have all the good qualities of coir, less its harshness and prickliness, and in exposed situations it weathers better than coir ever will. Place of manufacture is Ringwood (Vic.), and practice suggests it as a good occupation for returned soldiers. “But,” says the “Timberman and Ironmaster,” “it is a new industry that must have a tariff, if it is to flourish against the imported stuff produced by cheap foreign labour.
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Progress, Volume XV, Issue 6, 1 February 1920, Page 723
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94Stringy Bark Fabrics. Progress, Volume XV, Issue 6, 1 February 1920, Page 723
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