Blending of Jute with Different Natural Fibres

ABSTRACT

Cotton, jute, flax, ramie, hemp, sisal, manila hemp, wool, and silk are some of the major natural fibres, which are widely being used throughout the world. Apart from these, a large number of fibres grown in much smaller quantities in different parts of the world have local economic importance and are mostly consumed locally. Jute is the second most important natural fibre (after cotton) in terms of global consumption, is extensively used for the manufacture of flexible packaging fabrics besides its prospective use as carpet backing, decorative fabrics, and in some other fields of technical textiles. Various researchers have tried blending of jute with different fibres In order to achieve the best utilization of the positive attributes of jute fibre and to reduce its negative attributes as far as practicable. Some other reasons for blending of jute with other natural fibres are to impart fancy effect, reduce cost of end product, find out suitable admixture of natural origin to mitigate the gap between demand and supply of raw jute, and also to find out a suitable avenue for the lesser known fibres for which separate spinning system is not widely available/established.

Natural fibres differ from one other in their inherent physical, mechanical, and surface properties. Therefore, it requires a vast knowledge of the properties of fibres together with a great skill on their processing technologies to select a set of machineries and machine parameters for processing of blends of natural fibres to achieve desired yarn quality at minimum cost. In the present paper, the works carried out by the different researchers to find out suitable processing techniques for blending jute with different natural fibres have been reviewed extensively.

KEYWORDS:

• Blending
• fabric
• jute
• natural fibres
• mechanical processing
• properties of fibre
• yarn

The authors are thankful to Dr. S. K. Bhattacharyya, Director, and Dr. P. K. Das, Head, Mechanical Processing Division, NIRJAFT for their help in writing this paper.