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Show VEGETABLE FABRICS ARE EXHIBITED IN . NEWYORK Bureau Shows Textiles Produced Pro-duced From Nettles, Hops, and Cornstalks NEW YORK, Feb. 4 . Samples of vegetable fibres and textiles and articles ar-ticles of clothing and paper made from them are being; exhibited at the branch here of the bureau of foreign and domestic do-mestic commerce. In the outturn house building at Howling Green. The exhibit ex-hibit is the nerond of Its kind, the bureau recently having displayed clothing irtid other articles made of paper textiles. The ex hi Kits which are made from sTraasea. plants and leaves are the products of a process developed in (ermany. Among the flbren used are those from nettles, hops, willow iik, Ini needlns. cornttialks and nparagiiK, - whtrh are made Into overcoat lines, table cloths, paper, sport jacket, underwear, un-derwear, sweaters, stockings and so' Uh, worsted and many other men's and women's garments. H has teen found that the fibre taken out of the pine needle can be readily used In paper mills. It being possible to produce a trestment a Ions:, fine fibre ts being produced, a f ihre that can readily be spun on the wnrntd svHtem, pure or tamed fin result ulso 1 rm old Jute rax, which ar being cleansed mill made Into shoddy, which 1ho ran be pun n tho Worsted or woolen system. sys-tem. Stk's mad from old Jute rates or doth made from half won) and half Mite, won! or piece-dyed, are being tised for wmt'ii's costumes, overt-oat ins:, etc.. and have pus.)ed many experienced textile men. Furthermore, sweaters and vests art being made. from, all )ute worsted yarn, and It has been difficult diffi-cult to recognize them as bein;; nta.de of such. "The inventor of the processes tin, hen the managing director of thin company's plant since lis establishment In 1SI2. ttefore that he for many year worked In the capacity of dye one mint with the, Swlnn lye works at Basic, 8witr.erla.nd. For fifteen years he pursued pur-sued In his private laboratory liiv st udle of the treat men t of various vegetable fibres with n view to their adapt ti I ton to tho text lie industry." j strong and tough paper from It. One of the fibres china grass was brought Into the I'nlted 8tates before the war and was taken up by several textile concerns, especially by those man ufacturlng woolta . jtuuda. anj im-derwear. im-derwear. Textile experts ateri that this fibre is of especial importance In the manufacture of underwear, as it prevents a;nrments from shrink In. "Th attention of textile men In Ku-rop Ku-rop and elscwhera In being attracted to the remarkable results beintr at-talned at-talned In tiermany In the manufacture manufac-ture of yarn from grasses, plants and leaves." aays a statement of the bureau, describing the exhibit and the uses to! which fibres are put In the manufae- , tur of textiles, "This new Industry was established In 1912 at Fuers ten-berg. ten-berg. Germany. During the first year In which the plant was operated It confined Its activlt les to the manufacture manu-facture and sale of fibres. llTlfmiV (iRRW H WAR. In 19U spinning machinery was set up. and since then the spinning of yarn from these fibres has been carried on on an everlncreaslng scale. In the eight year of Its existence the products of this concern have covered a wide range of vegetable fibres, Including nlna grass, Australian seaweed, juts, old jute rags and shoddy worsted yarn. A number of mhers were worked up during the war and extensively used In the textile Industry. Some of these fibres were abandoned after the war, owing to the fact that the supply In i Oermany was not sufficient to warrant their permanent use. "The vegetable fibre derived from M"hi-grajja is known as soltdonla. It is similar to ramie, which Is known and used in the I'nlted Htatcs. The ier-man ier-man fibre company, by means of a special process, produces a Jon- fine, oft and curly fibre. It looks verv much like wool and mixes readily with that product, thua opening a wide field for : Its use In the woolen Industry. Kolid-nnia Kolid-nnia gained a wlda use on account of the shortage of wool during the war. As a substitute for linen, solid -do a la has been used In Germany for the manufacture of table linen of beau-tv beau-tv and strength. It has slso been tiwed for machine belting. Hosiery mills and underwear mills have produced from it s Hicks and stock ins which are d if-f if-f ii!i " t'-ir. unshrinkable lindtTW t:u: am! wpotTTnt; Jacket f fiuu iua.lily and strength. The Herman woolen mills have manufactured man-ufactured an army cloth which, composed com-posed of ?." per ret wool and per cent solidonia. it is asserted mirpaAa In tennile. HtrenKlh any ' pure wool cloth. Similar rrsults are claimed in respect to papermakers" felts, which, with a percentage of solidonia mixture, mix-ture, show considerable Increase In strungth. Women s and men's clothing of bilf solidonia and half wool or sshoddy, especially In piece-dyed goods, have found a welcome on the market. In 19M solidonia In the carded stage found a ready market at .lu cents a pound delivered In New.Vork or Itos-ton. Itos-ton. KlflHK I IHK W(OU "Another fibre from which lias been obtained spleqdid results is t he fibre known as poslhnla. This Is also a I vegetable fibre. It is derived from sea- . ' weed dredged in Australia and cl'-anst'd and washed In sweet water. Itrmiht i to llermany. the fibre Is subjected to a chemical treatment to soften it and make It resilient, the original fibre being stiff and harsh. The staple of this fabre is declared to be equal to a m- 1 dlutn staple wool, and It Is npun on t he worsted and woolen system. This fibre Is characterized by an elasticity and springiness, and the cloth which is made out of pure posidonia appears to show sea reel y any creases. term an "cloth "fntlls have mlxH '"io with wood shoddy and clot hs of good strength and appearance have been obtained. ob-tained. Merman textile men lielteve that this fibre, by reason of Its springiness, springi-ness, will find a wide use in the carpet car-pet industry. The fibre sold at half the price of, shoddy before the war. "The chief way In which Jute has been employed In the United States Is In the form of cheap lining and burlap. bur-lap. The Herman Fibre company has accomplished some unusual results with jtite Hv a sperlnl process of chembal |