There is a world shortage of all textile materials and there are, for practical purposes, no substitutes in plentiful supply for wool, cotton or hessian.
Supplies of timber, wire netting and hessian have been made available for those who are making the bunks.
There may be a few orders for linoleum hessians on the books.
Many other things in which hessian is used as part of the manufactured article are being affected.
The economy is agrarian—mainly the production of rubber, copra, hessian and tea—and the emphasis all the time is on fresh water, not high technology.
The supply position does not yet, however, allow for any increase in allocations of hessian for furniture.
Everything practicable is being done to ensure that supplies of other items, such as springs and hessian, are kept in step.
After that, why trouble to cover the springs with hessian, because the furniture will not last anyway?
