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Retro upholstery material
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barkcloth
Word definitions for barkcloth in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A soft, thick, slightly textured fabric made from the inner bark of certain trees, pounded together.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Barkcloth or bark cloth is a versatile material that was once common in Asia, Africa, Indonesia, and the Pacific. Barkcloth comes primarily from trees of the Moraceae family, including Broussonetia papyrifera , Artocarpus altilis , and Ficus natalensis ...
Usage examples of barkcloth.
Even if they had established a practice of setting guards, the walls were only made of layers of barkcloth that had been plastered over with clay and painted.
When this living framework had been established, mats of barkcloth had been draped gracefully over them to form the basis for the smoothly curving walls.
The walls of the chambers were flimsy things, with some temporary rooms of no more than barkcloth tapestries stretched on frameworks.
Especially lately I had found myself getting hungry at all hours, while Mistress Hasty had recently declared that if I didn't stop growing so rapidly, I should have to wrap myself in barkcloth like a wild man, for she had no idea how to keep me looking as if my clothes fit.
The barkcloth was daubed over with a peculiar local clay, and then coated with a bright layer of resinous paint.