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Anselme Paven

Hermann Saudinger

SEED FIBERS
Cotton is the most commonly used natural cellulosic fiber. Cotton fibers grow from the seeds in the boll (seedpod). Each boll contains seven or eight seeds, and each seed may have up to 20,000 fibers growing from it.

Coir is from the fibrous mass between the outer shell and husk of coconuts. It is a stiff fiber. It is usually used to make highly durable indoor and outdoor mats, rugs, and tiles.

Fibre mechanically extracted from dry mature coconut husk after soaking.

It is long, hard and strong fibre but with lower softness, lower water absorption capacity, and shorter life than long retted fibre.

Kapok fiber is from the seed of the Java or Indian kapok tree.

The fiber is soft, lightweight, and hollow. It breaks down easily and it is difficult to spin into yarns. It is used as fiberfill and as the stuffing for pillows. It used to be used as a stuffing for lifejackets and the mattresses on cruise ships because it is very buoyant. Kapok fiber is a silky cotton-like substance that surrounds the seeds in the pods of the ceiba tree.

It can support as much as 30 times its own weight in water and loses only 10 percent of buoyancy over a 30-day period. It is eight times lighter than cotton It is extremely used as a thermal-insulator. It is also lightweight, non-allergic, non-toxic, resistant to rot and odorless. Since it is inelastic and too fragile, it can't be spun. It has outstanding characteristics of lightness, impermeability, thermalisolation and eco- naturality

Hemp (from Old English hnep) is a commonly used term for high growing varieties of the Cannabis plant and its products,

Other variants of the herb Cannabis sativa are widely used as a drug, commonly known in the United States as marijuana. These variants are typically low growing and have higher content of THC. The legality of Cannabis varies widely from country to country, and from state to state in the United States. In many countries regulatory limits for concentrations of psychoactive drug compounds, particularly tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), in hemp require the use of strains of the plant which are bred for low content or otherwise have the THC removed.