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Which plant parts provide cotton, flax, jute, and sisal fibres?
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An annotated diagram showing how an operator uses a hand wheel, rollers, and spindles on a spinning jenny to draw and twist unspun fiber into thread.
The plant parts that provide these textile fibers are categorized based on their botanical origin:
- Cotton: The fibers, known as lint, are seed hairs that develop from the seeds within the plant's fruit, called a boll.12
- Flax: This is a bast fiber, meaning it is obtained from the stalk (stem) of the plant.34
- Jute: Like flax, jute is a bast fiber harvested from the inner tissue of the plant's [stem bark].45
- Sisal: This is a leaf fiber obtained from the fleshy, rigid leaves of the plant.21