Fibre Production
- Created by: Nicole Anna Morrison
- Created on: 30-04-19 18:35
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- Fibre Production
- Cotton
- Seed pods=bolls
- When these ripen=boll covered in very fine cotton fibres
- When pod bursts= cotton wool ball
- Cotton fibres
- Hollow tubes
- As sun dries fibres=collapse, become flatter like a ribbon+twisted
- Seed pods=bolls
- Linen
- Linen fibres come from stem of the flax plant
- Stalk made up of bundles of fibre
- Fibres are smooth, round, hollow centre, cross markings at regular intervals down their length
- Wool
- Sheep sheared+sentto mills for processing
- Luxury wool- other animals
- E.g- Cashmere=. goats, mohair= Angora goats, Angora wool= Angora rabbit
- Staple fibres
- Silk
- Protein fibre- comes from cocoon of the silk caterpillar
- Catapillar spins cocoon with two triangular shaped filaments
- Filaments held together with sericin
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- Cotton
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