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100 1 _aWoodhouse, Thomas,
_d1862-1933
245 1 0 _aCordage and cordage hemp and fibres
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCommon commodities and industries
500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-04
508 _adeaurider, Raymond Papworth, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Cordage and cordage hemp and fibres" by Thomas Woodhouse and Peter Kilgour is an industrial handbook written in the early 20th century. It explains the sources, preparation, spinning, and manufacture of cordage—ropes, cords, and twines—linking plant botany and cultivation to fibre extraction, grading, machinery, and practical rope-making, with notes on trade and marketing. The opening of the book sets its scope and value: a brief preface stresses cordage’s essential role in industry and promises a compact guide to fibres, processes, and machinery. It then defines “cordage” and surveys the three main fibre sources—leaf fibres (e.g., agave/sisal), bast fibres from stems (true hemp, flax, jute), and cotton from seed hairs—illustrating their structure and why cotton’s twist aids driving ropes. Early chapters distinguish soft fibres (true hemp from Cannabis sativa) from hard fibres (manila, sisal, New Zealand, Mauritius), outline hemp cultivation, and describe retting, breaking, and scutching, from traditional water-retting to mechanical methods. The narrative turns to hard fibres with practical notes on growing and harvesting manila and sisal, decortication, washing and baling setups, standardized grading, and concise production and price data, then begins the machinery section for soft fibres, describing softening, cutting/breaking, hackling strategy, and the start of the spread-board process where short lengths are formed into a continuous sliver. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1919
653 _aCordage
653 _aFibers
700 1 _aKilgour, Peter
830 0 _aCommon commodities and industries
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/cordagecordagehe00woodrich
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77619
999 _c118339
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