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I had begun to look upon it as a lost art, until Jack and I, taking a walk, stumbled upon a fale '(house) where a pretty woman sat cross-legged before a tilted board, pounding and scraping the wet lengths of stripped white tutuga – a kind of mulberry – Broussonetia papyrifera, if you really want to know.
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He told us at once that, according to Kempfer and du Halde, the Broussonetia furnishes the substance of the Chinese paper; it is a vegetable substance (like linen or cotton for that matter).
Two Poets 2007
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The paper was not made of silk nor yet from the Broussonetia; the pulp proved to be the triturated fibre of some kind of bamboo.
Two Poets 2007
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The paper was not made of silk nor yet from the Broussonetia; the pulp proved to be the triturated fibre of some kind of bamboo.
Two Poets 2007
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He told us at once that, according to Kempfer and du Halde, the Broussonetia furnishes the substance of the Chinese paper; it is a vegetable substance (like linen or cotton for that matter).
Two Poets 2007
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They insist on thinking that I am cold because my clothes are wet, and have thrown over me several folds of tapa, made from the inner bark of the wauti or cloth plant (Broussonetia papyrifera).
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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The paper mulberry's scientific name is _Broussonetia papyrifera_.
Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. Anonymous 1951
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Today it is known that this plant is an ulmacea (_Broussonetia papyrifera_) from a mash of which they still make cloth in Japan.
Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. Anonymous 1951
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_Broussonetia papyriffera dissecta_ originated about 1830 at Lyons, and
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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They insist on thinking that I am cold because my clothes are wet, and have thrown over me several folds of tapa, made from the inner bark of the wauti or cloth plant (Broussonetia papyrifera).
hernesheir commented on the word Broussonetia
The paper mulberry, an invasive exotic tree in the place I reside in.
June 21, 2010