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Book
Plant Fibre Processing
A handbook
Series: Small-scale Textiles
Published: 1998
Pages: 64
eBook: 9781780442990
Paperback: 9781853393853
This is the last of the Small-scale Textile series and covers the pre-spinning processes which make plant fibres suitable for textile manufacture. The book includes not only familiar plant fibres such as cotton, sisal and jute, but also less well known fibres from plants such as Himalayan nettle, pineapple leaf and kenaf, which are of great value to small communities where they are used for both utilitarian and decorative purposes. As well as extraction and other pre-spinning processes, there is background information on the growing areas, soil and climatic requirements and methods of harvesting, and details of equipment suppliers and sources of further information.
- 9781780442990.000 1
- 9781780442990.001 9
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Plant Fibres 9
- Chapter 2: Fibre Extraction and Processing 18
- Chapter 3: Fibre Quality and Grading 36
- Chapter 4: Specifications of Small-Scale Processing Machines 43
- Chapter 5: Planning for Production 46
- Chapter 6: Equipment Suppliers 49
- Chapter 7: Sources of Further Information 51
- Appendix 54
- 1: Distribution and uses of Fibre-Yielding Plants 54
- 2: Glossary 59
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