Linum is a genus of approximately 200 species in the flowering plant family Linaceae, native to Common Flax ( " L . usitatissimum " ), the bast fibre of which is used to produce linen and the seeds to produce linseed oil.
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Some of the economically important bast fibres are obtained from herbs cultivated in agriculture, as for instance flax, hemp, or ramie, but also bast fibres from wild plants, as stinging nettle, and trees such as mulberry have been used in the past.
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Some of the economically important bast fibres are obtained from herbs cultivated in agriculture, as for instance flax, hemp, or ramie, but also bast fibres from wild plants, as stinging nettle, and trees such as mulberry have been used in the past.
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Although fragile, the construction is clear : it is made of bast fibre ( almost certainly flax ) twine; the cords are braided in a 10-strand elliptical sennit and the cradle seems to have been woven from the same lengths of twine used to form the cords.
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Papermaking is traced back to China about 105 CE, when Cai Lun, an official attached to the Imperial court during the Han Dynasty ( 202 BCE-220 CE ), created a sheet of paper using mulberry and other bast fibres along with fishnets, old rags, and hemp waste.
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The industrial crops grown include cocoa, oil palm, tobacco, bast fibre, cotton, citrus and cashew . �Ashanti region has a large number of poultry industries including Darko Farms, Mfum Farms, Asamoah Yamoah Farms, Asare Farms and many others and Ashanti region also has large poultry feedmills.
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Kenya's main exports to the Philippines were : vegetable textile fibres, Jute and other textile bast fibres, metallic salts and peroxysalts, vegetables ( fresh, chilled, frozen ), household equipment of base metal, soap, cleansing and polishing preparations; oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; special yarns, special textile fabrics.
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Bast fibres are processed for use in carpet, yarn, rope, geotextile ( netting or matting ), traditional carpets, hessian or burlap, paper, sacks, etc . Bast fibres are also used in the non-woven, moulding, and composite technology industries for the manufacturing of non-woven mats and carpets, composite boards as furniture materials, automobile door panels and headliners, etc . From prehistoric times through at least the early 20th century, bast shoes were woven from bast strips in the forest areas of Eastern Europe.
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Bast fibres are processed for use in carpet, yarn, rope, geotextile ( netting or matting ), traditional carpets, hessian or burlap, paper, sacks, etc . Bast fibres are also used in the non-woven, moulding, and composite technology industries for the manufacturing of non-woven mats and carpets, composite boards as furniture materials, automobile door panels and headliners, etc . From prehistoric times through at least the early 20th century, bast shoes were woven from bast strips in the forest areas of Eastern Europe.
