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=Natural Plants Source Fibers = Home, Section 1 .1A, Section 1.1B, Section 1.1C, Section 1.2, Section 1.3


 * Natural plant fibers**, also known as **cellulosic fibers**, can be made of natural cellulose, regenerated cellulose, or regenerated chemical variants of cellulose. They are produced from a variety of different plants and are classified into four different categories:

1. __Seed hair fibers__, or fibers that grow in a seed pod on plants 2. __Bast fibers__, or fibers that are removed from the stems of plants 3. __Leaf fibers__, or fibers that are found on the leaves of plants 4. __Miscellaneous fibers__ from mosses, roots, and the like

Examples of cellulosic fibers include:
 * **Natural Fibers:**
 * __Seed hair fibers__: cotton, kapok, milkweed
 * __Bast fibers__: flax (linen), jute, ramie, hemp, kenaf
 * __Leaf fibers__: abaca, sisal, henequen, piña
 * __Miscellaneous__: coir, Spanish moss, sacaton (root fiber)
 * **Manufactured Fibers:**
 * __Rayon__: viscose rayon, high-wet-modulus rayon, cuprammonium rayon, lyocell
 * __Modified cellulose fibers__: acetate, triacetate
 * __Lyocell:__

Footnote: all information paraphrased from Collier, B. J., Bide, M., & Tortora, P. G. (2009). //Understanding Textiles.// (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.