| Potential sources being tested include soy, hemp, ramie, kenaf stems, pineapple and henequen leaves, and banana stems. |
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| It dissolves fabrics made of cellulose fibers, such as cotton, linen, rayon, and ramie, offering a variety of decorative options. |
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| Climatex Lifecycle, made by Swiss company Rohner Textil, is fabric made of pesticide free wool and organically grown ramie. |
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| Another collection is totally natural with natural fabrics like ramie, natural colours such as green and yellow, and a simple cut. |
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| The fibre in its various forms will eventually rank alongside linen, cotton, and ramie. |
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| Commercially useful bast fibres include flax, hemp, jute, kenaf, ramie, roselle, sunn, and urena. |
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| Indeed, even coastal fisheries were severely hampered after 1941 by mounting shortages of cotton yarn, ramie, Manila hemp, and, most importantly, petroleum. |
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| Plant fibre used in carpet construction, including sisal, cotton, jute, coconut, pineapple, ramie, and hemp, have characteristics similar to cotton. |
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| It is woven from the wool of free-range New Zealand sheep and from ramie, an organically grown fiber from the Philippines. |
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| The high-quality, lightweight patterned textiles made from the ramie plant are ideal for the hot and humid Japanese summer. |
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| In summer, cotton, linen or ramie blends, ultra fine chambrays, chinés, and seersuckers as well as special developments: selvedges elaborated like denim selvedge, and engineered stripes. |
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| They are built by applying the key technologies of rabbet-jointing planks together and caulking the seams between the planks with ramie, lime and tung oil. |
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| A weaving sophisticated, design and sumptuous grounds, all traditional crafts Philippino with natural fibers, such as, sinamay, sabutan, abaca, buntal, jusi, piña, ramie and many others. |
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| The 1986 agreements involve stricter measures for the dominant countries than previous accords, and for the first time some of them include protective measures covering silk blends, flax and ramie. |
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| In tie-dying, bundles of ramie threads are bound tightly with cotton before dying so as to produce a geometric or floral pattern when the thread is woven into fabric using a simple back-strap loom. |
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| Some of these species were and are commercially important, although not on the same scale as cotton, for example jute and ramie. |
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| After the meal, Robby, Ivory, Jenny, Preston, Krista, Spike, and Ramie went toward the board to play spin-the-bottle. |
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| Ramie Mamo, 46, a mother of three said some of the refugees had tried to leave Cyprus. |
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| Ramie is also similar to linen and is a bast of plant fiber. |
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| Ramie is a perennial from the Orient. The stalks grow 6 to 8 feet high, are about one-half inch in diameter, and are straight and nonbranching. |
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