Jute fabric and its Processing
One of the most popular fabrics used for sack making is coarse Jute fabric. Jute mattresses especially for bedding, ropes, paper and bags are other common examples of it.
Variety of uses make jute a versatile fiber provided as a gift from nature to man that provides varied range of handicrafts, carpets, bags and rugs. Jute is another cheapest fabric, next to cotton and has a huge market just like it.
It is an important textile fiber gaining appreciation all around the world. Yarn and rope industries are the true markets of this fabric with it are strengthening characteristics.
Moreover, cultivation of jute works best for millions of landless laborers, farmers and industrial workers and so it offers huge range of jobs for much population.
At the initial stages, uses of jute were very much restricted like for just sack or bags but later on the usages got to another level like for textile furnishings and garments that were explored and developed in the right manner.
Production of finer fabric named hessian or burlap took place, from coarse jute fabric. Due to this particular change, a lot more growth was witnessed in the jute mills of India. Otherwise, Hessian has been a very popular jute fabric in UK.
Processing of jute
India is a reservoir of variety of raw materials that is grown in different parts of the country. And the variation in them on the basis of size, color and strength is very much a natural affair.
Batching is the very first step in the processing of jute and in this blending of all raw fibers takes place for giving uniform color and strength. For removal of barky portion, available in the jute fabric and also to make it plaint, it is treated with water emulsion and oil in the spiral fluted rollers.
After this, in finisher cards or breaker, length of jute fiber is lowered down and they are transformed to 5” to 6” wider ribbon known as silver. These silvers are twisted then to develop rove over to bobbins which are then used for spinning the jute fabrics.
