 | John Aikin, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1852 - 500 sider
...which they prepared by soaking in water, and then beating with large mallets. Others wore cloth woven from a sort of vegetable wool, growing in pods upon...consider the immense number of caterpillars necessary to tBe production of so large a quantity of the stuff as I saw used. This people are very fantastic in... | |
 | Elementary books - 1860 - 270 sider
...which they prepared by soaking in water, and then beating with large mallets. Others wore cloth woven from a sort of vegetable wool, growing in pods upon...informed, is manufactured out of the webs of caterpillars. This people are very fantastic in their dress, especially the women, whose apparel consists of a great... | |
 | Graduated series - 1860 - 264 sider
...this they prepared by soaking in water, and then beating with large mallets. Others wore cloth woven from a sort of vegetable wool, growing in pods upon...credibly informed, is manufactured out of the webs of a certain kind of grub-worm. This is a most wonderful circumstance, if we consider the immense number... | |
 | 1863 - 316 sider
...which they prepared by soaking in water, and then beating with large mallets. Others wore cloth woven from a sort of vegetable wool, growing in pods upon...necessary to the production of so large a quantity of stuff as I saw used. This people are very fantastic in their dress, especially the women, whose apparel... | |
 | George Watson (publisher.) - 1864 - 238 sider
...this they prepared by soaking in water, and then heating with large mallets. Others wore cloth woven from a sort of vegetable wool, growing in pods upon...credibly informed, is manufactured out of the webs of a certain kind of grubworm. This is a most wonderful circumstance, if we consider the immense number... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1864 - 200 sider
...this they prepared by soaking in water, and then beating with large mallets. Others wore cloth woven from a sort of vegetable wool growing in pods upon bushes. But the most singular material was a line glossy stuff, used chiefly by the richer classes, which, as I was credibly informed, is manufactured... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 202 sider
...this they prepared by soaking in water, and then beating with large mallets. Others wore cloth woven from a sort of vegetable wool, growing in pods upon...credibly informed, is manufactured out of the webs of a certain kind of grub-worm. This is a most wonderful circumstance, if we consider the immens% number... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 280 sider
...which they prepared by soaking in water, and then beating with large mallets. Others wore cloth woven from a sort of vegetable wool growing in pods upon...used chiefly by the richer classes, which, as I was informed, is made out of the web of a sort of caterpillar : a most wonderful circumstance, if we consider... | |
 | James Burns (publisher.) - 1867 - 232 sider
...which they prepared by soaking in water, and then beating with large mallets. Others wore cloth woven from a sort of vegetable wool growing in pods upon...informed, is manufactured out of the webs of caterpillars. This people are very fantastic in their dress, especially the women, whose apparel consists of a great... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1870 - 170 sider
...which they prepared by soaking in water, and then beating with large mallets. Others wore cloth woven from a sort of vegetable wool, growing in pods upon...necessary to the production of so large a quantity of stuff as I saw used. This people are very fantastic in their dress, especially the women, whose apparel... | |
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Their dress was very various. Many were clad only in a thin cloth made of the long fibres of the stalk of a plant cultivated for the purpose, which they prepared by soaking in water, and then beating with large mallets. Others wore cloth woven from a... 
