Fiber and Yarn
suneel kushwaha guide- sakthi
Assignment was to search & creat linear material from nature that can be spun.
It should have leanth,strenth and cohesiveness. I select the coconut leaf. as we all know the coconut coir is a textile material and leaves are used for making mats, hand fan and huts. I found the leaf spine very intresting in turms of strength and linierity. The spine of leaves with which blades of leaves are attached is called “RACHIS”.
COCONUT TREE
SCIENTIFIC NAME = ARECACEAC FAMILY
= PLANTAE
FIBER
= MONOCOTS
COCONUT LEAF
my source place was nid back feild, where the gardner collects the cut plants.it was dry leaf so my time to get it dry was saved.
PROCESS(SPINNING) * REMOVE THE LEAVES BLADE FROM “RACHIS”.
*PEEL APART THE LONG SPINES.
*PUT THEM IN TO WATER. *AFTER 1 HOURS TAKE THEM OUT. *COLLECT THEM AND TWIST THEM TOGETHER.
*THEN MAKE BUNCH AS SHOWN IN SKETCH SO THAT IT WILL BE EASY TO HANDLE.
*THEN AGAIN PUT IT IN TO WATER FOR 24 HOURS SO THAT PULP GET SWOLLEN. * (AS SHWON IN SKETCH) BEAT IT ON A PLATEFORM.
*NOW OPEN IT (UNTWIST IT). *PULL OUT THE LOOSE FIBERS.
*NOW SPIN THE PULP FREE FIBRES TOGETHER AS SHOWN IN SKETCH (NOTE=SPIN IN WET CONDITION)
I TRED TO GET THREE DIFFERNT THICKNESS OF ROPES OF IT.
In first attampt of making rope of RACHIS ,I got a very course rope. it has un-removed pulp and projected fiber in ropes.
so I tried to clean the pulp throughly and kept the fibers wet while spinning. i got better results and finer count.
further step was to analysing the finest limit of RACHIS.third attampt, i found it was difficult to handle beecause of continouse breakage and untwisting of fibers.
By my experience I found the RACHIS is a good rope material but not a thread material.