Grass cloth

Grass cloth (China grass cloth, ) is an umbrella term for many handloom cloths made with yarns from several vegetable fibers such as hemp, ramie, nettle fiber, flax, etc. Grass cloth has its origin in East Asia.[1][2] The cloth is more associated with the cottage industry in China.[1][3][4]

It is also known as "Canton linen" and "Japanese grass cloth"[5]

Weave

Grass cloth is a loose weave structure with a plain weave.[2]

Texture

Grass cloth has a soft texture and fine enough to compare with French cambric.[6] China grass cloth made with Chines ma, a species of canabbis hemp, is very lightweight and appears like linen.[7]

Use

Grass cloth used for various usages such as tablecloths, sportswear, and blouses.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Chinese grass-cloth weaving industry". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 72: 398. 1924. Grass cloth , known to the Chinese as "hsia pu", or summer cloth, and classified by foreigners as Chinese linen, is a special product of ... The cloth is woven from hemp, ramie, pineapple fibre, or from a mixture of these and the bark of hemp.
  2. ^ a b c Fairchild's dictionary of textiles. New York, Fairchild Publications. 1959. p. 251 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ Commercial Handbook of China ... - Page 286books.google.co.in › books United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Julean Herbert Arnold · 1920
  4. ^ Royle, John Forbes (1855). The Fibrous Plants of India: Fitted for Cordage, Clothing, and Paper. With an Account of the Cultivation and Preparation of Flax, Hemp, and Their Substitutes. Smith, Elder, and Company. p. 350.
  5. ^ Denny, Grace Goldena (1953). Fabrics. Lippincott. p. 47.
  6. ^ Hunter, Robert (1884). The encyclopædic dictionary. 7 vols. [in 14]. p. 49.
  7. ^ Knight, Edward Henry (1880). Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments, Machines, Processes, and Engineering; History of Inventions; General Technological Vocabulary; and Digest of Mechanical Appliances in Science and the Arts. Houghton, Osgood. p. 1012.


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