Newspapers, magazines, spam, cardboard bins, and so forth. It is a useful resource so plentiful that almost everyone has a few of it laying around in their homes.
Block the lava with a horizontal steel door, held in place with glue. Use another dab of glue to hold a candle sideways in opposition to the rope to burn by it and release the starite. Use a fan to blow the starite towards Maxwell. The spikes will drop on the fan so it may take two or three to get the starite shut enough to Maxwell he can soar down and grab it.
Cheesecloth was generally used to cover home windows as a method to hold out insects. Being loosely woven, it allowed air to flow into, however it was easily torn, dirty rapidly, and limited the visibility from inside. Commercials for wire window screens started to appear in the 1820s …