Ramie's stem bark fibers are slender, tough, white, shiny, tensile, waterproof, moisture-proof, elastic and insulating, and can be woven into summer cloth (especially the summer cloth produced in Liuyang, Hunan and Wanzai, Jiangxi), wing cloth of aircraft, lining cloth of rubber industry, wire coating, incandescent yarn, fishing net, rayon and so on. And blended with wool and cotton to make high-grade clothing; Short fibers can be used as raw materials for high-grade paper, gunpowder, rayon, etc. Can also be woven into carpets, sacks, etc.

The production of ramie cloth should be composed of 12 manual processes, such as planting ramie, soaking ramie, peeling ramie, rinsing (sun and night dew), ramie finishing, yarn formation, 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.

Ramie was very important in ancient China? A fiber crop. Originated in the southwest of China. It was planted in some places in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the Neolithic Age. The earliest archaeological excavation is ramie cloth and fine hemp rope unearthed from the Neolithic site in Qianshanyang, Zhejiang Province, which has been more than 4,700 years. China is a country with many ramie varieties and wild ramie varieties, and China has the oldest ramie cultivation history, which has been more than 4,700 years. Ramie is more suitable for temperate and subtropical climate.

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