Fibre - Specimen details

Fibre - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 64897

Plant Name 32.00 STERCULIACEAE Byttneria carthagenensis Entry Book Number 87.1913
Artefact Name Fibre Vernacular Name
Iso Country Mexico TDWG Region Mexico
Parts Held Fibre Geography Description Mexico, Oaxaca
Uses FibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Not defined TDWG use MATERIALS - Fibres
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Donor Cope SR Donor No
Donor Date 14/11/1913 Donor Notes
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: 'Rosa textilis' Fair colour. badly prepared, very weak fibre good length. The weakness is no doubt caused by the preparation. This would find quite a ready market and especially if its strength was not so much affected. Today`s value 20 to2, 2 pounds per ton. Enclosed in letter 569.1913 : xiii p.196 Stuart R Cope Nov 6th 1913 to Director. Report by Messrs Corrie, Marc Coll & Son, 23 St Dunstans Hill E.C. 'Rosa textilis pentagonalis (Thomatisii). Staple long and strong but the bark has thorns, which interfere with the manipulation of the clean fibre. It may yield nearly a ton per cutting per acre and can be cut twice a year. It grows by roots preferably. It is a perennial.' (Letter Stuart R Cope, 33 Gt Tower St, London 6th November 1913 to Dire, ctor). [No 569.1913 : viii p.196] Length of fibre 3.30

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