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Handbook of textile fibres (Volume 1 – Natural fibres)

J Gordon Cook

Woodhead Textiles Series 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  
£35.00 / US$60.00 / €45.00

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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