Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1911 — Make Clothing From Seaweed. [ARTICLE]

Make Clothing From Seaweed.

“May we show you some of our latest patterns in seaweed?” The day may not be far distant when our tailor will make this jemark in the same commonplace tohe that he uses when showing us some choice tweed or serge for seaside wear. Seaweed is really a most useful commodity. It forms a cheap barometer and holiday memento for our children; it provides the farmer with a somewhat odoriferous manure; certain varieties of the weed have been turned to account tn the manufacture of photographic materials and now it promises to supply us with summer garments. The weed used for this purpose comes from Australia and is more a fiber than a seaweed proper. It is dredged up from the bottom of the tea. During the past few months several mills in Yorkshire have been experimenting, in the hope that cloth could be made from it At first it was thought too coarse for the manufacture of suitings, but the results are said to have been very 'satisfactory and beyond all expectation. It is light brown in color, as soft as wool and will readily take wool dyes.