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barkcloth
Wiktionary
n. A soft, thick, slightly textured fabric made from the inner bark of certain trees, pounded together.
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. It is made by beating sodden strips of the fibrous inner bark of these trees into sheets, which are then finished into a variety of items. Many texts that mention "paper" clothing are actually referring to barkcloth. Barkcloth has been manufactured in Uganda for centuries and is Uganda's sole representative on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists.
Today, what is commonly called barkcloth is a soft, thick, slightly textured fabric, so named because it has a rough surface like that of tree bark. This barkcloth is usually made of densely woven cotton fibers. Historically, the fabric has been used in home furnishings, such as curtains, drapery, upholstery, and slipcovers. It is often associated with 1940s through 1960s home fashions, particularly in tropical, abstract, "atomic" and "boomerang" prints, the last two themes being expressed by images of atoms with electrons whirling, and by the boomerang shape which was very popular in mid-century cocktail tables and fabrics. Waverly, a famed design house for textiles and wall coverings between 1923 and 2007, called their version of this fabric rhino cloth, possibly for the rough, nubbly surface. American barkcloth shot through with gold Lurex threads was called Las Vegas cloth, and contained as much as 65% rayon as well, making it a softer, more flowing fabric than the stiffer all-cotton rhino cloth or standard barkcloth.
barkcloth Honolulu.jpg|A Hibiscus flower pattern on barkcloth. skirt weight cotton.jpg|Barkcloth-style botanical pattern on skirt-weight cotton fabric. barkcloth.jpg|1950s barkcloth table cloth with botanical design.
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.