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Bast fiber from oak trees forms the oldest preserved woven fabrics in the world. It was unearthed at the archeological site at Çatalhöyük in Turkey and dates to 8000-9000 years ago. [5] Dress of unspecified bast fibre, Yuracaré, Rio Chimoré, Bolivia 1908–1909. Cycling suit of linen bast fiber, New York, New York, United States, 1908
Papyrus, a pith fiber, akin to a bast fiber; Ramie, a member of the nettle family. Spanish broom, a legume, its fiber has similar characteristics to linen. [6] Tilia, known as Linden or Lime in Europe and Basswood in North America. Fiber comes from inner bark. [7] Leaf fibers. Abacá, a banana, producing "manila" rope from leaves; Piña, from ...
Jute fiber being dried in sunlight after natural or microbial retting. Retting is the process of extracting fibers from the tough stem or bast of the bast fiber plants. The available retting processes are: mechanical retting (hammering), chemical retting (boiling & applying chemicals), steam/vapor/dew retting, and water or microbial retting.
Jute (/ dʒ u t / JOOT) is a long, rough, shiny bast fibre that can be spun into coarse, strong threads. It is produced from flowering plants in the genus Corchorus, of the mallow family Malvaceae. The primary source of the fiber is Corchorus olitorius, but such fiber is considered inferior to that derived from Corchorus capsularis. [1]
Kenaf long fiber from the bast. The fibres in kenaf are found in the bast (bark) and core (wood). The bast constitutes 40% of the plant. "Crude fibre" separated from the bast is multi-cellular, consisting of several individual cells stuck together. [6] The individual fibre cells are about 2–6 mm long and slender. The cell wall is thick (6.3 μm).
A linen handkerchief with drawn thread work around the edges Linen cloth recovered from Qumran Cave 1 near the Dead Sea Flax stem, fiber, yarn and woven and knitted linen textiles. Linen (/ ˈ l ɪ n ə n /) is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant. Linen is very strong and absorbent and dries faster than cotton. Because of these ...
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Around one ton of bast fiber and 2–3 tons of core material can be decorticated from 3–4 tons of good-quality, dry-retted straw. For an annual yield of this level is it in Ontario recommended to add nitrogen (N):70–110 kg/ha, phosphate (P 2 O 5 ): up to 80 kg/ha and potash (K 2 O): 40–90 kg/ha. [ 111 ]