(1) Stone tools are virtually indestructible, whereas organic materials - bone, antler, wood, leather, sinews, cordage , basketry, featherwork, etc. - decay under most normal conditions.(2) These reeds are then attached to each other by using strings of coarse cordage obtained from the makalani palm leaf fiber, tree bark or swamp grass which are individually knotted to the reeds.(3) She knew every plank by name and number, the land from where it had come, which piece fitted where, how much sisal cordage had been braided and the grasslands where it was grown.(4) Her innovative use of gut (intestinal skin) - now a signature material in her work - was inspired in part by Native American artifacts, from canoes to clothing and cordage .(5) It's nice to have a few yards of paracord in your pocket, but all kinds of vegetation can be pressed into service to make ropes and cordage .(6) It can be spun into a filament that is useful for making rope, webbing and cordage .(7) Jake, knowing me more than anyone, knew this, and had make a two-person swing out of wood and cordage .(8) Such knowledge goes far beyond foodstuffs to include plants and plant-parts useful for dyes and for cordage and textile manufacture, as well as a vast array of medicinal leaves, bark, roots, stems, and berries.(9) Footropes still to be added to the foremast topsail, and some cordage here and there to be sorted out.(10) One was the use of stinging nettle fibres for cordage .(11) At the time, there was great demand in Europe for good processed flax to make naval rope, cordage and sails.(12) This facility was a major producer of rope and cordage for the whole of the Royal Navy until March 1991, when all production ceased because of bomb damage.(13) Hanks of sisal fiber purchased in Elmina market, usually used for making ropes and cordage for ocean-going fishing canoes, were dyed and dried in Hippies' upstairs studios.(14) The main mast top mast was bent to the deck with cordage and sail draping across to starboard.(15) The trade went in both directions: there was already a surplus of cordage and sailcloth that was traded on to Constantinople while there was a booming import-export business to Riga.(16) From impressions of fiber cordage on fired clay, archaeologists have discovered evidence of string and of rope-making technology in Europe that dates back 28,000 years.
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