[Nfb-krafters-korner] what is jute? here is the answer.

[Blindhands at aol.com]

That is what popped into my mind when you mentionedjoot, like rope and  
rough.
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 8/2/2013 12:14:42 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
flowersandherbs at gmail.com writes:

Hi  all,



You know how inquisitive I can be. Sometimes I am so eager  to learn about
something I  rush on out on the net to find  out.



So I asked about Jute and now I know. I don't believe I  would want it for
jewelry after what I have read! Too  scratchy!



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Jute is a long, soft, shiny vegetable  fiber
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_fiber>  that can  be spun into
coarse, strong threads. It is produced from plants in the  genus Corchorus
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corchorus> , which was  once classified with
the family Tiliaceae  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiliaceae> , more
recently with  Malvaceae <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvaceae> , and has
now been  reclassified as belonging to the family  Sparrmanniaceae
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparrmanniaceae> .  "Jute" is the name of the
plant or fiber that is used to make burlap,  Hessian or gunny
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessian_(cloth)>   cloth.

Jute is one of the most affordable natural  fibers
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_fiber>  and is  second only to cotton
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton>  in  amount produced and variety of
uses of vegetable fibers. Jute fibers are  composed primarily of the plant
materials cellulose  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulose>  and  lignin
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignin> . It falls into the bast  fiber
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bast_fiber>  category (fiber  collected from
bast or skin of the plant) along with  kenaf
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenaf> , industrial  hemp
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp> ,  flax
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flax>   (linen
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linen> ),  ramie
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramie> , etc. The industrial term  for jute
fiber is raw jute. The fibers are off-white to brown, and 1-4  metres (3-12
feet)  long.

Cathy



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