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In pre-contact times, most items of clothing amongst the natives of the Pacific Northwest were woven from red or yellow cedar bark. After the bark was peeled in long strips from the trees, the outer layer was split away, and the flexible inner layer was shredded and processed. The resulting felted strips of bark were soft and could be plaited, sewn or woven into a variety of fabrics that were either dense and watertight, or soft and comfortable. Women wore skirts and capes of cedar bark, while men wore long capes of cedar bark into which some mountain goat wool was woven for decorative effect. Darker red states are always part of the Pacific Northwest. ... Species Thuja plicata Western Redcedar, Thuja plicata, a species of thuja, is an evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to the northwestern US and southwestern Canada, from southern Alaska and British Columbia south to northwest California and inland to western Montana. ... Genera Capricornis Nemorhaedus Rupicapra Oreamnos Budorcas Ovibos Hemitragus Ammotragus Pseudois Capra Ovis Pantholops A goat antelope is any of the species of mostly medium-sized herbivores that make up the subfamily Caprinae or the single species in subfamily Panthalopinae. ...
The Haida ability to travel was dependent upon a supply of ancient cedar trees which they carved into their famous Pacific Northwest Canoes.
Carved from a single cedar tree, a vessel could sleep 15 adults head to toe and was propelled by up to 60 paddlers (which often included women).
Like all Indigenous Peoples of the north east coast of the Pacific Haida make extensive use of Red Cedarbark, which is still used as both a textile for clothing, ropes and sails, and in its more raw form, as a building material or even armor.
As the woody stem increases in size (see cambium), the outer bark of inelastic dead cork cells gives way in patterns characteristic of the species: it may split to form grooves; shred, as in the cedar; or peel off, as in the sycamore or the shagbark hickory.
The cork of commerce is the carefully harvested outer bark of the cork oak (Quercus suber), a native of S Europe.
The fiber cells that strengthen and protect the phloem ducts are a source of such textile fibers as hemp, flax, and jute; various barks supply tannin, cork (see cork oak), dyes, flavorings (e.g., cinnamon), and drugs (e.g., quinine).
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