grass-string

Updated: June 18, 2025

Yesterday boots were the exception, and most of the people, both men and women, were shod with a kind of moccasin made of plaited grass, and had their limbs swathed in ragged strips of cloth kept clumsily in place with grass-string. "It is his doing," Mishka condescended to explain. "His and my father's. He gives the word and the money, and my father and those under him do the rest.

John Ironside - The Red Symbol