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Handbook of textile fibres: Natural fibres (Volume 1)J Gordon Cook
Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles No. 4
A comprehensive survey of the natural fibres animal, vegetable and mineral on which we depended for our textiles until comparatively recently.
ISBN 1 85573 484 2
ISBN-13: 978 1 85573 484 5
January 1984
240 pages 200 x 128mm paperback
£45.00 / US$75.00 / €55.00
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Contents
Introductuion
- Fibres for clothes
Natural fibres of vegetable origin
- The bast fibres
- Flax
- Jute
- Hemp
- Sunn
- Kenaf
- Urena
- Ramie
- Nettle
- The leaf fibres
- Sisal
- Henequen
- Abaca (manila)
- Other leaf fibres
- The seed and fruit fibres
- Cotton
- Miscellaneous seed and fruit fibres
Natural fibres of animal origin
- Wool
- Mohair
- Camel hair
- Cashmere
- Persian goat hair
- Llama
- Alpaca
- Huarizo
- Vicuna
- Guanaco
- Fur fibres
- Silk
Natural fibres of mineral origin
- Asbestos
Directory of natural fibres