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Sufu

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Sufu was a wartime material used briefly in Japan during World War II when cotton and other woven materials were scarce.[1]

It was an inexpensive, ersatz cloth made of wood fibers, basically cellulose, that disintegrated after three or four washings and was highly flammable. The warp threads were of cotton fibers; the weft consisted of twisted paper.

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  1. ^ Sumner, Judith (2019). Plants Go to War: A Botanical History of World War II. McFarland. p. 200. ISBN 978-1-4766-7612-8.