The other types of material used to weave were Indian hemp, nettle fibre, milkweed fibre, rushes and reeds, willow bark and more recently, domesticated sheep wool.
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Also growing is the toxic dogbane, or Indian hemp, used by Native Americans in basket-weaving and for bowstrings.
In 1839, William Brooke O'Shaughnessy (1809-1889) of the British East India Company published a treatise called On the Preparation of the Indian Hemp or Gunja, Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bengal.
Apocynum cannabinum, also known as Dogbane, Amy Root, Hemp Dogbane, Indian Hemp, or Wild Cotton