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.

Cyril Jarman

Identification of selected vegetable textile fibres

Carr, Debra

Cruthers, Natasha

Smith, Catherine

Myers, Tom

Studies in Conservation, Vol. 53 (2008), Iss. sup2 P.75

https://doi.org/10.1179/sic.2008.53.Supplement-2.75 [Citations: 14]

Industrial Applications of Natural Fibres

Economic Aspects

Drieling, Axel

Müssig, Jörg

Graupner, Nina

Müssig, Jörg

Piotrowski, Stephan

Carus, Michael

2010

https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470660324.ch3 [Citations: 2]

Hemp fiber and its composites – a review

Shahzad, Asim

Journal of Composite Materials, Vol. 46 (2012), Iss. 8 P.973

https://doi.org/10.1177/0021998311413623 [Citations: 298]

Material Choices for Fibre in the Neolithic: An Approach through the Measurement of Mechanical Properties

Harris, S.

Haigh, S.

Handley, A.

Sampson, W.

Archaeometry, Vol. 59 (2017), Iss. 3 P.574

https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12267 [Citations: 4]

Bast and Other Plant Fibres

List of fibre-producing plants

2005

https://doi.org/10.1533/9781845690618.appendices [Citations: 0]

Bast and Other Plant Fibres

Ramie

KOZLOWSKI, R

RAWLUK, M

BARRIGA-BEDOYA, J

2005

https://doi.org/10.1533/9781845690618.207 [Citations: 3]