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unusual facts about natural fiber



Camassia

A pit-cooked camas bulb looks and tastes something like baked sweet potato, but sweeter, and with more crystalline fibers due to the presence of inulin in the bulbs.

Gunny sack

A gunny sack, also known as a "gunny shoe," is an inexpensive bag made of burlap usually formed from jute or other natural fibers, although modern sacks are often made from polypropylene; the "gunny" portion of the name ultimately descends from Sanskrit guṇa, "thread"/"fiber," by way of imperial British corruption of that word's descendants in later Indian languages.


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Braided fishing line

Braids were originally made from natural fibers such as cotton and linen, but natural fiber braids (with the very rare exception of braided silk) have long since been replaced by braided or woven fibers of a man-made materials like Dacron, Spectra or micro-dyneema into a strand of line.

Changra

Known in the occidendental world as Cashmere, changra fiber is considered as the finest natural fiber in the world.

Jute

To meet this demand, some manufactures in the natural fiber industry plan to modernize processing with the Rieter's Elitex system.

Manoppello Image

The cloth has been claimed to be made of a rare fiber called byssus, which is a natural fiber coming from a bivalve mollusc Pinna nobilis, woven into sea silk, and used by ancient people mainly around the Mediterranean coasts .