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IN jute, the fibrils in the cell-wall are arranged in right-handed helices, that is, they show the Z twist of textile workers, and the drying-twist is counter-clockwise. In flax, with the fibrils in left-handed (or S) helices, the drying-twist is clockwise1. So far as we know, the following results are the first of their kind to be reported, and although they were obtained with bundles of jute fibre-strands, similar relationships must also hold for jute yarns. Tests were made in a room conditioned to about 75 per cent relative humidity, and the test-pieces were carefully sampled out.
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CHAKRABARTI, B., NODDER, C. Some Effects of the Helical Fibrillar Structure of Vegetable Fibres. Nature 163, 19–20 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163019a0
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