Fibre and yarn

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.