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Article: Evaluating the Fineness of Agave Americana L. Fibers
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- Textile Research Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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ABSTRACT
Like all long vegetal fibers, hard or soft, agave Americana L. fibers show greatly dispersed fineness. In this paper, this dispersion is demonstrated using two approaches: measurement of the gravimetric fineness and evaluation of different aspects of diameter.
Developing textile applications for a new or underused fiber is always very attractive, especially when the fiber is natural and indigenous. Agave Americana L. fibers, one of this fiber family, are extracted from leaves of the agave, an amaryllidaceous plant native to Mexico and other parts of the Caribbean area. Plants were taken from there to Europe, Africa, and the Far East by the Spanish and Portuguese, where they ...