132 CLOTH AND CORDAGE FROM NETTLES. 



the cheapest stucco known, and that it will prove very dura- 

 ble, both without doors and within, and that it has given 

 entire satisfaction to the gentlemen who have tried it; and I 

 am now engaged, if I can, the ensuing summer, to stucco the 

 outside of one house at Bridport, and another at Yeovil, also 

 the inside of a cottage for labourers that I have just built for 

 Mr. H. B. Way, at Bridport harbour. 



THOMAS EVERETT. 



Stone Mason, Bricklayer, and Plasterer. 

 Shipton George, near Bridport, 

 Dorset, April 22, 1811. 

 Witness, James Btjdoen. 



VII. 



Cordage and 

 cloth from 

 retries. 



Introduction 

 of a new sub 

 stance of pro. 



Manufacture of Cloth and Cordage from Nettles, ly Mr. 

 Edward Smith*. 



JL'N page 109, of the 28th volume of the Society's transac- 

 ttonsf will be seen a communication from Mr. E. Smith, 

 of Brentwood, on manufacturing a variety of articles from 

 the fibres of the common nettle, for which he has received 

 their silver medal. He has since, with great attention and 

 laudable industry, extended his experiments on this subject, 

 and, during the last session, produced to the society speci- 

 mens of cloth and cordage made from the nettle, which ap- 

 pear to possess great strength and durability. The society 

 have, therefore, this session, voted to him their silver Isis 

 medal. The following communication was received from 

 him, and specimens of the cordage and cloth, made by him 

 from nettles, are preserved in the Society's repository. 



Esteemed Friend, 

 I received thy kind favour of the 23d instant, by the con- 

 tents of which I am much obliged ; and being impressed by 



ductive labour the consideration of the vast importance the introduction of 



* Trans, of Soc. of Arts, vol. XXIX, p, 81. 

 f See Journal, vol. XXIX, p. 161. 



a new 



