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A Little History About Burlap Bags

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In an effort to track down the history of earthbag building, I’ve been reading up on the history of burlap bags – the forerunner to polypropylene bags.  This post is based on information at NYP Corporation, a wholesaler of burlap bags.  (See “Jute to Burlap.”) For centuries, the people of India used jute, the plant … Read more

Sandbag War Structures

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There is an ongoing debate over the origins of earthbag building — who ‘invented’ it and when.  It is an important point that gets into sticky questions about patent rights of building with earthbags. Some accounts of military sandbag structures go back over 100 years.  I haven’t seen pictures of these, but a recent Google … Read more