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Products from coir, coconut shells, sisal, jute and a variety of other items can be put to good use, he feels.
It's surprising that coir, the fibre extracted from the outer covering of the common coconut, could turn out to be such a valuable moneymaker.
Also, a discussion of some of the newer organic materials included in plant media, e.g. coconut coir and compost, would be appropriate.
The fortunes of the traditional coir yarn spinners, mat weavers and carpet-makers have been on the downtrend.
The floor could be cool polished or varnished wood, with natural fibre rugs or coverings in seagrass, sisal or coir to give warmth.
Craftsmen use a stainless steel knife, with a sharp edge and triangular blade, to cut rough shapes in the coir.
Stripped wood is still very much the in-thing for floors, along with natural seagrass or coir rugs and floor coverings.
The timbers are jungle jackfruit, the lashings are coir rope, the walls are bamboo matting and roofs are local thatch.
Instead of peat, some growers are starting to use coir as a potting mix component.
Oxfam's Matara team has also helped workers previously employed in the coir and lace industries.
The EPCH also plans to include a complete product group of floor coverings made of natural fibres including coir, jute, cotton, silk and wool.
More than 50 women are being trained in handicrafts using coir and plantain fibre.
The compost, including the addition of coir can then be used to replace the peat normally used in a garden.
The husk, which contains useful fibre, known as coir, is not discarded but is set aside to produce, for example, coconut matting.
All he had to do was paint the face white, stick bits of coir from a coconut for ears and a red beak-like nose of colour paper and presto!
The workers in the conventional small industries sector such as coir and handloom face an uncertain future thanks to the globalisation policies.
We also explored using coir fibres from coconuts for the backing, a renewable material that would otherwise be considered waste.
A bulking agent such as sawdust or coir is usually required after each use, and some systems allow for the addition of food scraps as well.
The rice boat's coir thatch looks impenetrable, resembling a giant floating armadillo, yet it's woven for ventilation.
Coco husks could be converted into coco coir, which is an export product, an alternative to synthetic fibers for household and industrial use.
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Examples from Classical Literature
We always carried with us a heavy turtle-net, made of coir fibre, which I had bought two years before in the tokelau Group.
If a small line could be got across from ship to ship, the end of it would be made fast to a coir hawser in the Monsoon.
Sun-drying is done on cement or brick floors, on coir mats or trays, or on wooden platforms.
He holds aloft the coir string, under the lower end of which a cocoanut has been placed on the ground.
A part of this is obtained from tropical America, but it is a regular export of British India, where it is known as coir.
Where else do we find a priestly fugitive slave, who held his sacred office by the coir na glaive, the Eight of Sword?
They had put a coir warp ashore, and gave the barque a cant in the current, so as to bring the broadside to bear on the flagstaff.
There are several cots, some made of coir, and others of wooden planks.
Manilla, coir, and some other ropes, do not require tarring.
Once a week Deesa led Moti Guj down to the river, and Moti Gui lay on his side luxuriously in the shallows, while Deesa went over him with a coir swab and a brick.
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