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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Um, we're gonna see couple of technologies that have been actually replaced by modern materials. The nylon rope that is used today, almost exclusively in ranches, is actually a replacement for ropes that were woven out of horse hair, or over here, Adolfo?

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[[aside]] ¿Me puede explicar qué es esto? We're gonna get an explanation from Balto of what this rope is, actually.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Esto viene de la lechuguilla. Que viene siendo esa, y allí sale esto, y los peines, y-

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Y varias otras cosas

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Y los estropajos.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Uh-huh. Uh, what Balto is saying is that this is a part of a plant called lechuguilla. And lechuguilla, you'll recognize, is similar to the yucca;
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it's similar to the maguey, or the century plant, from Mexico, also grows in Florida.
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This penca, this leaf, is filled with a fiber, and through a process of scraping that you can see actually on the other side of our, um --
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once this demonstration's over with, step around and you can actually see Balto cleaning the lechuguilla through a scraping process --
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the fiber is extracted, and it's used to make these ropes through a twining process where the rope is twisted, folded back over itself, twisted, and after that's done, with four thicknesses, the rope is made.
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These brushes are also grooming brushes for horses, for dishwashing, for all sorts of personal use.
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These are also made from the fiber that's called ixtle.
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And, um - pero ahora también se ocupa mas nylon.
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And right now they're using more nylon rope, the mass-produced rope, than the ropes that you're seeing here that Balto makes.
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Um, ¿que otra cosa trae usted, a enseñarnos? I'm asking Joe what else he has, what else he's brought to show us.

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