The practice meant that various good materials were offered as well as rags, and in due course six types were allowed on the authority of the Buddha, namely, linen, cotton, silk, wool, coarse hempen cloth, and canvas.
In the United States, engineer John Roebling established a factory in 1841 for making rope out of iron wire, which he initially sold to replace the hempen rope used for hoisting cars over the portage railway in central Pennsylvania.
It is strained through hempen cloth to remove physical impurities, after being pounded and stirred in shallow wooden tubs to give it uniform liquidity.
Funeral dress was generally white, although the Shu Ching ("Classic of History") refers to a funeral at which those who officiated wore hempen caps and variously coloured skirts.
On this is fixed a coat of hempen cloth (or paper) by means of an adhesive paste of wheat or rice flour and lacquer, which needs at least 24 hours to dry.
Lacquer, the solidified sap of a tree (Rhus vernicifera), has been widely employed for a variety of decorative purposes on a foundation of wood or, less often, hempen fabric.
They may be made on stones, engraved on plates of copper, silver, or some other metal, or drawn and painted on skins, linen, silk, or hempen cloth.
Meanwhile, Mr. Huntsman, who had changed into some sort of hempen tunic, gazed longingly toward the mountains, flicking his tongue in and out like a gila monster as Mr. Santorum rifled through his wallet.
His mane evokes a gathering of strawberry-red intricately braided hempen fibers, the sharply twisted ends of which have been punched, individually, a half inch into his scalp.
With her shorn, straggly hair and hempen robe, there is no doubting her physical anguish; and one of her first actions is to bury her face in the sand as she rages at the "adulteress" from whom she has briefly fled.
Here there many hints of the later Brook's love of simplicity: a large bowsprit swung in a huge pendulum-like arc evoked the opening storm; Richard Johnson's Ferdinand dragged a pile of logs across the vast expanse of an empty stage; and Gielgud, clad in a rough, hempen costume, was no heavily cloaked magician but a half-naked hermit.
