| Nights of stuffing this sculpture with kapok, a new substance for the job, sent me into bouts of itching. |
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| When the pillow is kneaded a little, the thumb and forefinger will come right together if it's kapok. |
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| The material kapok, the soft fibrous covering of the seeds of a tropical tree, is familiar as a lining and stuffing material. |
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| He fetches his favorite toy, an ancient stinky ball of kapok and synthetic fur, cured and flavored by two years spent outdoors in all seasons. |
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| Youngsters may have heard of kapok fillings in various sports equipment and sleeping bags. |
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| The Carib Indians used kapok for drums and canoes but otherwise sheathed their axes in regard to the tree. |
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| In addition to these attributes the kapok fiber is totally water repellent and resistant to rot. |
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| At the store my parents bought me a stuffed dog with a music box embedded in the kapok. |
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| The kapok is a large, deciduous, tropical tree that has attractive leaves and clusters of yellow, white or pink flowers. |
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| Beneath the brown velvet of the seed capsules, a white kapok of cottony seed-parachutes packs the core. |
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| While still on the tree, the fruits burst open exposing the cotton like substance, which is the kapok of commerce. |
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| The rectory blinked in amber glitters between a scraggly screen of kapok trees fronting it. |
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| The nice thing about kapok is that you can refluff it every once in a while to keep its original floatation. |
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| Due to insect infestation, only thirty-two out of the 120 precious kapok trees along Chungcheng Road are still alive. |
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| In the Virgin Islands the tamarind and the kapok are the two species most commonly held to be spirit trees. |
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| If you want to see a beautiful kapok tree on St. John, one can be found on the Reef Bay Trail. |
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| In many places the straight trunks of the kapok tree are used to make dugout canoes. |
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| Cutting a kapok tree of that size is no easy task and the man soon tires and falls asleep at the base of the tree. |
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| These kapok or silk-cotton trees belong to the Bombax family, Bombacaceae, which includes many fascinating, handsome and much admired trees. |
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| Now the hunt for more soaring specimens of kapok, wild ficus, Dead Man's Tree, and gnarled kenip continues, as efforts to save the trees gain steam. |
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| Among the natural fibers represented are: silk, wool, cotton, kapok, flax, jute, hemp, sisal, raffia, and asbestos. |
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| The Japanese-style mat or zabuton is about 2 feet square and loosely packed with cotton or kapok to give a cushion effect for the legs. |
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| Up until then, straw, horsehair and kapok has been used as filling materials, sometimes in combination with iron springing. |
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| Because the unopened fruit won't sink when submerged in water, many believe the fruit of the kapok tree floated its way from Latin America to Africa. |
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| You can stuff them full of kapok to make a decent cushion and there is nothing better to carry frogs in. |
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| These natural fibers include flax, hemp, jute, sisal, kenaf, coir, kapok, banana, henequen, and many others. |
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| Scientists have done extensive studies on fibers such as barley straw, kapok, polypropylene wool, Ramkumar said. |
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| But further in we find the postcard scene: kapok trees growing antler-like from temple walls, strangler figs winding in and out of brickwork like mortar-eating snakes. |
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| To make him even more unique, he is kapok stuffed and has glass eyes. |
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| Buoyant devices are made from either kapok or unicellular foam. |
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| We guessed his emotion at that time, in the sight of the majestic 60 metre high kapok trees which enclosed stones and ruins with their vegetable tentacles. |
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| Kapok is now seen throughout the tropics mainly because it was extensively cultivated for the fibrous kapok found in mature fruit capsules. |
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| In 1904, Steiff became the first company to interpret Peter Rabbit and produced an exquisite version made in luxurious cotton velvet and stuffed with kapok and wood shavings. |
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| In Cambodia the leaves from the ipil-ipil tree, Sesbania tree and kapok tree, together with tender leaves from water hyacinth and morning glory plants are cooked with rice husks and used as fish food. |
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| If the kapok becomes hard or if it is soaked with water, replace it. |
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| In 1951 Raynal registered the « magic skin » trademark, a type of synthetic rubber very similar to the skin used to produce bodies stuffed with kapok. |
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| A still summer night a world away in a house that smells of cactus and dust and musty kapok. |
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| The coastal morning glory was left to creep up a bamboo pole that leaned against the kapok tree. |
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| Right smack in the middle of the village is a huge kapok tree, which is where they get together and have their market every fifth day. |
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| Straw, a dried form of grass, is also used for stuffing, as is kapok. |
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| The boxes were machined from aluminium stock and filled with Kapok sacks for added buoyancy. |
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| Apart from Amish Kapok, Bokmal's colleagues are working with a number of award-winning architects such as Rem Kolas, Zahra Hasid among others. |
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