1. Among all kinds of hemp fibers, ramie fiber is the longest, strongest and slightly thicker. The fiber length is two or three times to six or seven times longer than that of top-grade cotton. Ramie fiber is two or three times thicker than flax and hemp, and the fiber end is sharp, which will itch when it touches the skin. Internationally, it is not recognized as a textile fabric in direct contact with the skin.
After degumming and refining, the fiber looks white and silky.
3. Ramie fiber structure has large gaps, good air permeability, fast heat transfer, high water absorption and fast moisture dissipation, so ramie fabric has a cool feeling.
4. Ramie fiber has high strength and low elongation. Seven or eight times stronger than cotton.
Ramie fiber is not easy to be corroded by mold, moth-eaten and light in weight. Compared with ramie cloth with the same volume, ramie cloth is 20% lighter.
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Stem bast fiber is glossy, mildew-proof and easy to dye. It is an important textile crop and a high-quality paper-making raw material. It has a profound connection with China's cultural tradition. One of the five ancient kinds of hemp.
The cloth made of ramie is called summer cloth. Summer cloth is also used in summer. Starting from planting hemp, it is picked once a year in spring and autumn, and then hand-woven into cloth after beating hemp, pulling hemp balls, pulling taro, drawing wires, threading, brushing, weaving, rinsing, setting, printing and dyeing. If the new summer cloth is hard, it must be put into a basin with a proper amount of alkaline water, boiled, taken out and rammed with a clothes hammer to make it soft. The width is two feet and two inches. Each horse is about 45-60 cm wide.
After ramie is made into cloth, it needs to be bleached with grey forging hammer to make white hemp and white linen fine cloth. The deep clothes in the Book of Rites are made of ramie. "Yuefu Song of Mi Bai" says: "Light as a cloud and silver in color, make a robe towel." In the middle Tang Dynasty, "it was a robe" and "the spring shirt was cut with a white robe and the hat was hung with black gauze." It is a fashion, so that the Tang people reached the crazy level of "cutting shirts and making them white". White muslin is called silk after dyeing, which is mostly used to make official clothes.
The production of ramie cloth consists of 12 manual processes, including planting ramie, soaking ramie, peeling ramie, rinsing (sun exposure and night dew), finishing ramie, stringing, twisting, carding ramie, sizing and spinning. Because ramie, the raw material of summer cloth, is heavy in gum and irregular in hemp, it can't be produced on a large scale by machine, and the production is affected by the weather, which doubles its value and exceeds the demand.
The main varieties of hand-made ramie summer cloth are: natural color, white and other summer cloth, which are widely used in clothing, home textiles, homes, shoes and hats, door curtains, curtains, bedding, sofas, pillows, cushions, placemats, tablecloths, wall hangings, lampshades, luggage, health care products and creative designers, and can be used to make various summer cloth.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-ramie