Engineering of Ramie - A Potential Textile Fibre for the Future- Crimson Publishers
Engineering of Ramie - A Potential Textile Fibre for the Future by SK Dey in Trends in Textile Engineering & Fashion Technology
Ramie, one of the oldest textile fibres of
plant origin has from time immemorial ruled the textile world as king of
natural fibres. Its popularity in the textile world is limited due to the
difficulty in degumming and lack of knowledge of mechanical processing. Major
natural conventional fibres like cotton, wool, silk and jute are widely used
throughout the world. Apart from these, unconventional natural fibres like
ramie, pineapple, sisal and hemp are grown in much smaller quantities and have
local economic importance. Ramie, a lingo-cellulosic bast fibre obtained by
decortication from stem of the plant followed by degumming possesses high
α-cellulose and very little lignin. It possesses some advantageous physical and
chemical properties while some demerits are encrusting gummy material,
cohesiveness. If the apparent demerits can be masked, a diverse range of
products can be engineered by exploiting the intrinsic properties of ramie. One
of the ways of masking is blending of ramie with different natural fibres in
order to achieve the best utilization of the positive attributes and to reduce
the negative attributes. Thus, employing the chemical degumming method coupled
with the improved spinning technique, blended ramie yarns can be developed for
spinning of acceptable yarn qualities. Woven fabrics from ramie-jute were also
found satisfactory.
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