Rhea Fibre - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 43633 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 153.01 URTICACEAE Boehmeria nivea | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Rhea Fibre | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Rhea Fibre | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Rhea FibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Not defined | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | White Abbey Bleaching Co Belfast | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: In different stages of preparation Opuscular source: To the Reporter on the Products of India, India Office Dear Sir, I have been favoured with your several communications the last under the date of 26th July last (next part badly faded), 1.This same sample of Green Rhea after having passed through the process in question. In connection with this sample my friend remarks that the green plant arrived in a greatly pattern condition. The stick being cut in three parts and that whatever could, be saved he succeeded in saving with great trouble. Hence and owing to the great tendency of branching the fibre obtained could neither be long or the filament be great. Sample 2 represents fine and bleached threads to show the condition of the thread g, enerally. Mr Deinigen (?) observes that according to the structure of the plants the fibres of the sample cannot all be of the length of the plant. There are always more or less short fibres in the branchings and these are presented under this head. Sampl, e 3 is obtained from Rhea in a dry state and shows the fibre in the original length of the plant. The operative in this instance has not been carried beyond the point of separating the fibre from the stem and from its outer bark. If I am rightly informedt, he prize formally offered by the Govt.of India was for a proper preparation of Rhea 50 pounds per ton in which amount was included the cost of the plant itself 30 pounds per ton, if so the problem has been solved by my friend. Mr D. will undertake to prep, are Rhea according to the accompying samples as follows: cost of chemicals, ..?.. per ton 3/13/6 drying, cleansing etc 1/10-, cost of Rhea 30 pounds = 35/3/6- or 14/16/6- per ton below the minimum sum stipulated by the Indian Govt. In conclusion I beg t, o state that Mr D. is prepared to have an apparatus constructed in this country to show its operation and to treat through my medium for the sale of the patent which I shall have the pleasure in explaining more fully when ever desired. If I solicit the fa, vour of an early reply it is only on Mr D. representation that the eventuality of having an apparatus constructed in England would obviate the necessity of doing so now for the acclimatisation herein, and the 'textil industrie' of Berlin both of which soc, ieties pressing for the speedy exposition of an apparatus in their own interest. I have honour to be Sir your obedient servant L Heizbeig | ||||