Fiber plants

thumbnail|Weaving a strip of plaited esparto

thumb|Alphonse Pellion, Îles Sandwich; Maisons de Kraïmokou, Premier Ministre du Roi; Fabrication des Étoffes (c. 1819), Depicting High Chiefess Likelike (wife of Kalanimoku)|Likelike, the wife of [[Kalanimoku beating kapa cloth.]] Kapa is a fabric made by native Hawaiians from the bast fibres of certain species of trees and shrubs in the orders Rosales and Malvales. The bark is beaten and felted to achieve a soft texture and dye stamped in geometric patterns.

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Ramie (from Malay ) is a fibre crop native to eastern Asia, derived from the plant Boehmeria nivea.

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thumb|right|alt=Tuft of stiff fibers removed from a brush|Tuft of Ixtle fiber and metal staple from a brush

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