Subject: Re: [permaculture] Ancient rubber-making techniques
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 09:48:50 -0500
On Sunday, May 30, 2010 09:25:12 pm Ben Martin Horst wrote:
> Here's a fascinating blurb on ancient Mesoamerican rubber-making
> techniques, not involving vulcanization. I would imagine the craft
> is rather complex, but it sounds from the article that the recipe is
> not: latex from the rubber tree and the sap of an Ipomoea. I'm sure
> some of you in the tropics might think of permacultural applications
> for such a technique.