bark cloth
Americannoun
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any cloth, as tapa, made by soaking and pounding the inner bark of certain trees.
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fabric woven to resemble such cloth, used for upholstery, bedcovers, etc.
noun
Example Sentences
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Another striking piece - which is different to his usual work - is a woman's traditional dress that Oloya has made from bark cloth.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2024
Oloya uses them as symbols of modernity and plastic waste from outside Africa, which contrast vividly with the organic bark cloth that comes from inside the continent.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2024
Large squares on bark cloth made by the villagers remind him of Malevich's squares or "Papova's perhaps."
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2013
The mountain villagers project their landscape on to bark cloth.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2013
Evidently, Austronesian settlers in the New Guinea region got the idea of “tattooing” their pots, perhaps inspired by geometric designs that they had already been using on their bark cloth and body tattoos.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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