  A brief introduction to the String Fragmentation Model and its consequences
is presented. We discuss the fragmentation of a general multi-gluon string and
show that it can be formulated as the production of a set of ''plaquettes''
between the hadronic curve and the directrix. We also discuss certain
interesting scaling properties of the partonic states obtained from standard
parton shower algorithms like those in Pythia and Ariadne, which are
communicated to the final state hadrons obtained through our hadronisation
procedure.
