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ILLUSTRATIONS 
PLATE I 
. Laying a three-strand rope having a mean girth of 30 millimeters, 
made of crude strips of Artocarpus communis bast at Sappaac, 
Abra, obtained from the trunk of an old tree. 
- Heavy hardwood rope-laying apparatus (pagtalian, Ilocano) 
used in Caoayan, Ilocos Sur, for making large-sized mooring 
ropes, together with two coils of rope made therewith. One coil 
of rope is made of maguey (Agave cantala) and the other of 
a species of bamboo (Dendrocalamus merrillianus). 
PLATE II 
. Laying a three-strand rope having a mean girth of 19 millimeters, 
made of retted Abroma fastuosa bast dt Sappaac, Abra. The 
view shows the triple-crank end of the crude rope-laying ap- 
paratus with strands still separate. In the foreground are 
two men holding spun and unspun bast. 
. Form of specimen used for making tensile-strength tests of Philip- 
pine bast-fiber ropes. 
PLATE III. PHILIPPINE BAST-FIBER ROPES 
. Rope having a mean girth of 19 millimeters, made of retted 
Abroma fastuosa bast. 
. Rope having a mean girth of 86 millimeters, made of crude (un- 
retted) strips of Abroma fastuosa bast. 
. Rope having a mean girth of 38 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Commersonia bartramia bast. 
. Rope having a mean girth of 35 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Helicteres hirsuta bast. 
. Rope having a mean girth of 39 millimeters, made of crude ribbons 
of Kleinhovia hospita bast. 
. Rope having a mean girth of 42 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Pterocymbium tinctorium bast. 
. Rope having a mean girth of 21 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Pterospermum diversifolium bast. 
Rope having a mean girth of 40 millimeters, made of crude ribbons 
of Sterculia crassiramea bast. 
Rope having a mean girth of 22 millimeters, made of Sterculia 
foetida bast. 
Rope having a mean girth of 38 millimeters, made of crude ribbons 
of Sterculia oblongata bast. 
Rope having a mean girth of 22 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Sterculia stipularis bast. 
Rope having a mean girth of 22 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Bombycidendron vidalianum bast. 
Rope having a mean girth of 17 millimeters, made of retted 
Malachra lineariloba bast. 
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