bark cloth

any cloth, as tapa, made by soaking and pounding the inner bark of certain trees.

fabric woven to resemble such cloth, used for upholstery, bedcovers, etc.

Words nearby bark cloth

One kind of fig-tree is often seen hacked all over to get the sap, which is used as bird-lime; bark-cloth is made of it too.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 |David Livingstone
Bark-cloth, which is exclusively used throughout Equatorial Africa, is the produce of a kind of fig tree.

Some Heroes of Travel |W. H. Davenport Adams
Yesterday we were met by a party of the same occupation, laden with bark-cloth, which they had just been stripping off the trees.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 |David Livingstone
Bark-cloth is made in most islands, but a loom for weaving leaf strips is now found only in Santa Cruz.

Man, Past and Present |Agustus Henry Keane

The Indians are well-featured, and wear a long gown of bark-cloth reaching to the knees.

The Andes and the Amazon |James Orton

bark cloth

a papery fabric made from the fibrous inner bark of various trees, esp of the moraceous genus Ficus and the leguminous genus Brachystegia