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Ramie Used As A Blend

Ramie is a strong, absorbent fiber that is often blended with other fibers like cotton and wool. When blended with cotton, it increases luster and strength. When blended with wool, it adds lightness and reduces shrinkage. Ramie is used to make fabrics resembling linen and is found in shirts, tablecloths, upholstery, and fishing nets. Ramie blends can be laundered or dry cleaned depending on the fabric, and should be stored flat to prevent breaking of the brittle fibers. Ramie has been cultivated in East Asia for thousands of years and is known for its strength and durability in textiles.

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Ramie Used As A Blend

Ramie is a strong, absorbent fiber that is often blended with other fibers like cotton and wool. When blended with cotton, it increases luster and strength. When blended with wool, it adds lightness and reduces shrinkage. Ramie is used to make fabrics resembling linen and is found in shirts, tablecloths, upholstery, and fishing nets. Ramie blends can be laundered or dry cleaned depending on the fabric, and should be stored flat to prevent breaking of the brittle fibers. Ramie has been cultivated in East Asia for thousands of years and is known for its strength and durability in textiles.

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Ramie Used as a Blend:

Ramie is most often blended with other fibers for its unique strength,
absorbency, luster and dye-affinity. When blended with high-quality cotton it
offers increased lustre, strength and color. When mixed with wool, ramie adds
lightness and minimizes shrinkage. When blended with rayon, it offsets the low
wet strength.

Uses of Ramie Fiber:


Ramie is used in fabrics resembling linen, such as apparel fabrics for shirts and
shorts, tablecloths, napkins and handkerchiefs. It is often found as a blend with
cotton in knit sweaters. Ramie is also used in fishnets, canvas, upholstery fabrics,
straw hats and fire hose.

Fig:
Ramie uses as upholstery fabrics

Care of Ramie:
Ramie-blend fabrics can be laundered or dry-cleaned depending on the dyes,
finishes and garment design. The care label will state the preferred method. The
dry-cleaning method helps prese1ve the beauty of woven ramie items and gives
best colour and shape retention and a wrinkle free appearance. With caution,
white ramie fabrics may be bleached with chlorine-type bleaches. Ramie fabrics
withstand ironing temperatures up to 400 to 450 degrees F or the cotton setting
on an iron.
When storing ramie or ramie blends, lay them flat. Ramie fibres are brittle and
tend to break. Avoid folding the garment or pressing sharp creases in woven
fabrics.

History and uses


The ramie plant has been cultivated in eastern Asia for fibre since prehistoric
times. Ramie fabric was used in ancient Egypt and was known in Europe during
the Middle Ages. Ramie fibre, also known as China grass, and ramie fabric, variously
known as grass linen, grass cloth, or China linen, have been exported from East Asia to
the Western Hemisphere since early in the 18th century, but commercial production of
ramie products did not achieve importance in the West until the 1930s. Because of its
desirable properties, including strength and durability, ramie has frequently been
promoted as a textile fibre of great potential.

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Ramie is used to make such products as industrial sewing thread, packing materials,
fishing nets, and filter cloths. It is also made into fabrics for household furnishings and
clothing, frequently in blends with other textile fibres. Shorter fibres and waste are used
in paper manufacture. Ramie leaves are edible and are a key ingredient in certain
gelatinous rice cakes and rice dumplings in parts of East Asia.

China leads in the production of ramie; other producers include Japan, Taiwan, the
Philippines, and Brazil.

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