Fibre to Fabric Notes

COTTON

•    Cotton is a natural fiber harvested from the cotton plant.

•    Cotton is one of the oldest fibres with traces of cotton over 7,000 years old recovered from archaeological sites.

•   Cotton is also one of the most used natural fibres in existence today, with consumers from all classes and nations wearing and using cotton in a variety of applications.

Cotton plant                                         Cotton

JUTE

•    Jute is a fibre obtained from the bark of the jute plant.

•    It is cultivated during the rainy season.

•    Jute grows best in loamy soil (mixture of sand, silt, and clay), sandy soil, and clayey soil.

•    Almost 80% of the world's high-quality jute comes from Bangladesh.

•    India, Bangladesh, China, Nepal, and Thailand are the main producers of jute.

OTHER USEFUL PLANT FIBRES

•    There are other important plants fibres as well. Like:

Flax (Linen):