Various Fibres
Articles on
Various Fibres
OTHER NON-BAST FIBRES
Botanically, the fibres havested from many Fibre plants are bast fibres; Bast Fibres are where the fibres come from the phloem tissue of the plant. Other Non-Bast fibre crop fibres are from seed padding, leaf fibre, or other parts of the plant.
Cotton, Bamboo fibre, kapok, Coir and Sisal are good examples of commercially used non-bast fibres. Other non-Bast fibres lesser used by industry are included in this Section. These include:
ESPARTO
MILKWEED
PAPAYA
UMBRELLA PLANT
Our apologies, we haven’t posted any articles to this section as yet.
Please regularly check for updates as we are aiming to post some quality information as soon as possible.
If you have some top quality information on this subject that you would like to share with a world-wide farming audience, please submit it to our editor at editor@informedfarmers .com for consideration for publication.
In the meantime, please click here to return to the homepage and look at the interesting information on the rest of our site.
Thanks
The Editor.
