The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6
Chinese Grass-Cloth
Chinese Grass-Cloth.
The plant yielding the fibre for this textile fabric, Boehmeria nivea, or the Rhea of Eastern Asia, grows vigorously in the Botanical Gardens of page 38 Melbourne. There can be no doubt that among cultivated fibre plants the Rhea will assume finally a prominent rank. Fibre has been exhibited grown at Melbourne and at Rockhampton.