The Natural History of the Farm; a Guide to the Practical Study of the Sources of Our Living in Wild Nature
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Loosely twisted fibers of coarse twine. mutual pressure. Braiding accomplishes the same result for a few fibers of uniform size, but even for these it has the dis- advantage, as compared with spinning, that it bends the fibers more sharply, tending to break them, and yields a flat cord, having less pliancy. Both spinning and braiding were practised in all lands before the dawn of history. Everywhere man had need of strings, longer than any that nature offered ready-made. He gathered what he cou...ld find and combined them, first into coarse cordage, strong enough to fetter wild beasts or to bind up the poles of his primitive dwelling, and then into an endless variety of finer products, as progress was made in the art of spinning. Sewing threads were long imspun, and differed in kinds in different parts of the earth. Horsehairs served our bar- barian ancestors in Europe for their sewing: the shredded sinews of the deer served the Indians of the northeastern United States; and the fibers of the yucca, those of the south- THE FIBER PRODUCTS OP THE FARM 157 west.
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