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'Lady in Elizabethan Dress'
Inscribed below: "Pressing Glass
15th April 1961
with overseas customers including Henry Ford and a number of Indian Maharajahs
Heckling of hemp plant fibre Battle of Copenhagen 'Lady in Elizabethan Dress'Illustration of the process of heckling hemp to separate the plant fibres. The fibres were subjected to repeated combing by different grades of heckle [comb] to prepare the material for use in rope making or cloth production. The scene shows workmen processing the plant and this is surmounted by a decorative border with hemp plants Cannabis sativa, heckling combs, scutches and other equipment. Plate 5 in the monograph On the cultivation and
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