bark cloth

noun

any cloth, as tapa, made by soaking and pounding the inner bark of certain trees.
fabric woven to resemble such cloth, used for upholstery, bedcovers, etc.

bark cloth

a papery fabric made from the fibrous inner bark of various trees, esp of the moraceous genus Ficus and the leguminous genus Brachystegia

A strainer of bark cloth is plunged into it at times, and wrung out so as to carry away the small fragments of root.

Capes made of bark cloth are made and worn by men and women.

Yesterday we were met by a party of the same occupation, laden with bark-cloth, which they had just been stripping off the trees.

Bark-cloth, which is exclusively used throughout Equatorial Africa, is the produce of a kind of fig tree.

The weaving of a bark cloth, stained with the red juice of water-plants, suggests an industry of these early days.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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