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Thanks to improved research, experimentations and promotions, which focused on discovering the other practical uses for jute cloth.
Among several factors, the availability of skilled labor in India coupled with the comparatively low cost of jute products offer probabilities for technological development sufficient to assure a growing and continuing world demand for jute products.
Significant to the increasing demand for jute cloth is the emphasis on the remarkable physical properties of the jute fiber, but more relevant was when jute was "labeled" as an eco-friendly material: 100% biodegradable, an attribute that is actually true and tested of jute.
Today, jute cloth has come to be known in different varieties: Burlap or Hessian cloth, Sacking and Canvas.
Burlap, made of good quality jute yarn, is used for a wide range of applications the most common and most in-demand are the cloth form manufactured to jute garments, and jute bags. |
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Made from lower grades of fiber is Sacking. It is heavy, loosely woven jute cloth, in plain or twill weaves known in the trade as "heavy goods" and is largely produced as raw material for bags of all types.
Canvas is the finest jute cloth product. It is closely woven of the best grades of fiber but is relatively inexpensive compared with canvas made from other fibers.
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