Piute Chieftain | 1916-08-24 | Page 4 | Nettle Weed Supplants Cotton

nettle weed supplants cotton in their quest for material which cars cao be used as a substitute for cotton german scientists have discovered that the troublesome nettle weed contains a long fiber which can be woven into a durable cloth the difficulty to overcome was to sep separate it from the woody splinters which scratch and irritate the skin an ammonia process was first used but this was expensive an inventor named richter has now devised a water process by which the irritating are separated from the fiber and considerable of the nettle cloth have already been woven it Is nearly water proof absorbs dye readily and Is a coarse strong cloth suitable for many purposes