Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ramie, Rhea, China Grass, or Nettle Fibre: A Reprint of Four Articles Which Appeared in "the d104ile Mercury" Of 26th May, and 2nd, 9th, and 16th June, 1900
Dealing first with the general absence of knowledge that formerly prevailed, I would re mark that many manufacturers took up the new fibre with avidity and made it the basis of manufacturing experiments and even speculative enterprises, but the results in nearly all cases were failure, loss of money, and disappointment. They had gone to work very energetically but without discretion, not realising that this fibre, like all others, has its peculiarities, which must be carefully studied and taken into considera tion if success is to attend the efforts to manu facture it. An absolutely new fibre naturally needs a new system of treatment and special machinery and plant. Many manufacturers tried to work ramie on their existing machinery, which was designed for ?ax, cotton, silk, or worsted, etc., all these textiles having qualities differing in many important respects from ramie. Failure and disappointment were the result, because impossibilities were expected.
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