ILLUSTRATIONS 
Plate I 
Fig. 1. 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. 
2. 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 {Aguve cantala) and the other of 
a species of bamboo {Dendrocalamus merrillianus) . 
Plate II 
Fig. 1. Laying a three-strand rope having a mean girth of 19 millimeters, 
made of retted Abroma fastuosa bast at 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. 
2. Form of specimen used for making tensile-strength tests of Philip- 
pine bast-fiber ropes. 
Plate III. Philippine Bast-fiber Ropes 
Fig. 1. Rope having a mean girth of 19 millimeters, made of retted 
Abroma fastuosa bast. 
2. Rope having a mean girth of 36 millimeters, made of crude (un- 
retted) strips of Abroina fastuosa bast. 
3. Rope having a mean girth of 38 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Commersonia bartramia bast. 
4. Rope having a m.ean girth of 35 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Helicteres hirsuta bast. 
5. Rope having a mean girth of 39 millimeters, made of crude ribbons 
of Kleinhovia hospita bast. 
6. Rope having a mean girth of 42 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Pterocymbium tinctorium bast. 
7. Rope having a mean girth of 21 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Pterospermum diversifoHum bast. 
8. Rope having a mean girth of 40 millimeters, made of crude ribbons 
of Stercidia crassiramea bast. 
9. Rope having a mean girth of 22 millimeters, made of Stercidia 
foetida bast. 
10. Rope having a mean girth of 38 millimeters, made of crude ribbons 
of Stercidia oblongata bast. • 
11. Rope having a mean girth of 22 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Sterculia stipidaris bast. 
12. Rope having a mean girth of 22 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Bombycidendron vidalianum bast. 
13. Rope having a mean girth of 17 millimeters, made of retted 
Malachra lineariloba bast. 
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