Eco-friendly pretreatment of linen fabric

摘要

Cellulose is a skeletal polysaccharide, a naturally occurring fibrous material, found commonly in plants. A fibre is defined as 'a unit of matter characterised by flexibility, fineness, and high ratio of length to thickness' while fibre ultimate can be defined as 'one of the unit botanical cells into which leaf and bast fibres can be distinguished'. Most plant fibres, except seed fibres, exist in bundles of ultimate fibres. The use of these naturally occurring cellulosic fibres can be traced back more than 10,000 years; they were used for textiles in the Middle East and in China since 8000 BC. The Babylonians used flax fibre for burial purposes in about 650 BC.