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The Fiber Resource – Textile Fiber WWW Database

 

Fibers can be naturally occurring – in the form of plants and animals – or derived from other sources. The former variety is termed natural fiber and the latter, man-made fibers.

 

 

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  • Natural Fibers

 

Natural fibers are those fibers that are directly from nature, usually from plants or animals. The common natural fibers are cotton, wool, silk, jute, and flax/linen.

 

 

    • Cotton

 

Cotton is perhaps the most commonly used natural fiber. Derived from the cotton plant which belongs to the same family as do plants such as hibiscus and okra, the fiber is both economical as well as effective. The cotton plant is known to have been grown in India over 5000 years ago, and perhaps existed even much before that.

 

 

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    • Wool

 

Wool is the dense and soft hair derived from the coat of sheep and certain other mammals. For industrial purposes the fiber of the camel, alpaca, Angora goat, llama, Kashmir goat (the fiber is called cashmere), and vicuρa is classed as wool.

 

Wool is primarily used in apparel that is intended to keep us warm, because the woolen fibers are non-conductors of heat and its crimps capture and enmesh the thin air.

 

 

 

    • Silk

 

Silk is the soft and shiny fiber that is used in a variety of luxury textiles. By a process known as sericulture, silk is obtained from the cocoon of the silkworm larva. The shiny appearance of silk comes from the fibres' triangular prism-like structure, owing to which the fabric refracts light at different angles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

·        Synthetic Fibers

·        Synthetic Fibers - Wikipedia

·        Inventory of Synthetic Fibers

·        Synthetic Fibers in Costume Collections (PDF)

·        Nylon Sourcing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

·        Semi-synthetic Fibers –

 

 

 

 

 

 

·        Inorganic Fibers –

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

·        Cellulosic Fibers

·        Cellulose Insulation Manufacturers Association

·        Synthetic & Cellulosic Fiber Formation Technology

 

·       Viscose Rayon

·        Rayon Fiber – Fiber Source

·        Making Rayon Fiber

·        Viscose Rayon Fiber Information

·      Cuprammonium Rayon Fibers

·        Cuprammonium Rayon Fibers

·        Production of Cuprammonium Rayon Fiber

·        Investigating the Cuprammonium Rayon Process (PDF)

·        Making Rayon

 

 

·       Lyocell

·        Lyocell – One Fiber, Many Faces

·        About Tencel

·        Tencel & Lyocell Fabric Information

·        Lyocell Staple Fiber in Industrial Applications

·        Opportunities from the Fibrillation of Lyocell

 

 

·       Polynosic Fibers

·        Polynosic Fiber Info

·        Shanghai Zhonglun Textile

·        Polynosic Comeback in Japan

 

  

·       Azlons

·        Azlons from A to Z

·        Azlon Fiber Definition from Fiber Source

·        Fiber Trademarks

 

 

 

 

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