ORUM INDICUS OVERSEAS

Chittaranjan Park, Delhi

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We are already aware that cotton being the most important vegetable fibre is used worldwide, and second in rank comes jute. As far as tensile strength is concerned, jute has it in great amount and it’s also high on the breathing ability of fabrics. Jute is absolutely environment-friendly and is 100% recyclable and 100% bio-degradable; it grows on earth, it serves the earth and once it dispenses its duties, it merges with the earth. Jute’s versatility is unmatched and its acceptance across all industries – be it packaging, agricultural or horticultural, construction or textile, jute is the number one choice for everyone. Burlap/hessian sacks, bags, fabric, industrial yarn, all have jute in them due to its reliability and durability. It has the ability to blend with other fibres both synthetic and non-synthetic. Being a natural product, jute’s acceptance is simply unparalleled and unrivaled.

A Brief History of the Golden Fibre
Traces of jute being used for the production of textiles can be found in the 3rd millennium B.C. in the Indus Valley Civilization. The Golden Fibre has a long history of usage for domestic and commercial purposes for producing sacks required for storing food grains, for making threads, ropes, twines, for weaving mats as well as for clothing. Archaeologists have even found during excavations that jute had even been used for making paper by our ancestors. Jute has a long history of ups and downs and it has been the main raw material of one of the oldest industries of India, the jute industry. In spite of several challenges that the jute industry has been facing at the domestic and international level, more than 3 hundred thousand workers work in jute mills today and they support more than 4 million farmer families which shows how important a cash crop jute is in India. Jute was used widely for making clothes and was worn by the villagers in West Bengal since ages. They used hand looms and hand spinning wheels for weaving clothes. The first jute mill was stared in Rishra, West Bengal in 1854. Ropes and twines made of jute were also used by the local population for agricultural, commercial and household activities. The commercial value of jute was first realized by the Dutch and the French who transported jute from Bengal to Europe.