bark cloth
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.
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A strainer of bark cloth is plunged into it at times, and wrung out so as to carry away the small fragments of root.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonCapes made of bark cloth are made and worn by men and women.
The Mafulu | Robert W. WilliamsonYesterday 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.
Some Heroes of Travel | W. H. Davenport AdamsThe weaving of a bark cloth, stained with the red juice of water-plants, suggests an industry of these early days.
Through the Malay Archipelago | Emily Richings
British Dictionary definitions for 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
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