gunny-cloth

Portugal, by her duties on wine exported; Great Britain, by her export duties, imposed in India, on gunny-cloth, linseed, jute, saltpetre, and opium; and Holland, by her monopoly and export duties on the coffee of

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Various

The export of gunny-cloth from India to the United States in the same year amounted to several millions of pieces.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

The fine and long-stapled jute is reserved for the export trade, for which it bears a comparatively high price; the residue is spun and woven by these classes as a domestic manufacture; it is made into gunny-cloth, which is circulated through the globe, forms the bagging for our corn, wheat, and cotton on their voyage to distant ports, and finally makes its last appearance as paper.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

This room is always in the second story, and at one end of it a circular hole is cut in the floor; through this hole hangs the bag of strong, close gunny-cloth, very different from the coarse covering which suffices for the lower grades of "short-staple," supported by a stout iron hoop larger by some inches than the hole in the floor, and to which the end of the bag is securely sewed.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

To complete the game, we must wait for Lottie to bring the "Rosette" safely home with salt-petre and indigo and hides and ginger and seersuckers and gunny-cloth.

The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children Jane Andrews 1860

She had a high sprit-sail made of handkerchiefs and pieces of gunny-cloth or jute, forming irregular stripes, I am told these Indians commonly have pieces of squared timber, not unlike a three-inch plank, high and broad, perforated to shoot arrows through; this is fixed on the bow of the war canoe to serve as bulwarks in battle. "

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892