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unusual facts about birch bark



Algonquin people

Canoes were made of birch bark, sewed with spruce roots and rendered waterproof by the application of heated spruce resin and bear grease.


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Birch bark manuscript

On July 26, 1951, during excavations in Novgorod, a Soviet expedition led by Artemiy Artsikhovsky found the first Russian birch bark writing in a layer dated to c.

The Bower Manuscript is one of the oldest Sanskrit texts on birch bark using Brāhmī script.

Mämmi

Finnish packaging still prints birch bark-like texture on the carton boxes.

Russia leather

The pit was then stacked with carefully arranged layers of birch bark, above an insulating and filtering layer of linden husks.