bark cloth

American  

noun

1. any cloth, as tapa, made by soaking and pounding the inner bark of certain trees.

2. fabric woven to resemble such cloth, used for upholstery, bedcovers, etc.

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bark cloth British  

noun

1. a papery fabric made from the fibrous inner bark of various trees, esp of the moraceous genus Ficus and the leguminous genus Brachystegia

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Example Sentences

Another striking piece - which is different to his usual work - is a woman's traditional dress that Oloya has made from bark cloth.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2024

Oloya uses them as symbols of modernity and plastic waste from outside Africa, which contrast vividly with the organic bark cloth that comes from inside the continent.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2024

Large squares on bark cloth made by the villagers remind him of Malevich's squares or "Papova's perhaps."

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2013

The mountain villagers project their landscape on to bark cloth.

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2013

He didn’t know why he kept the bag, except that it was made from a scrap of bark cloth and had come from Myanda.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer