About Jute Bags
Jute is an excellent material for a bag for several reasons. The woven material is durable, it is attractive and jute can be harvested quickly, so it's environmentally sustainable. Jute, which comes from the Corchorus tree and is grown in India, is a strong, vegetable-based fiber that also can be used as a material to make paper, cloth furniture, and even carpets. Jute bags have many uses for both packaging raw materials and as fashionable purses. Does this Spark an idea?
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Harvesting Jute
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Jute doesn't require chemicals to grow and it doesn't disrupt the ecosystem. The lack of chemicals also works to keep production costs low. Jute comes from the stem of the tree. It is often stripped by children because the task isn't labor intensive. The vast majority of jute comes from the Ganges delta where the climate is almost always warm and humid; the area gets up to 6 inches of rain a week. Jute can grow extremely fast and can be harvested without cutting down the tree. This makes its production easy on the environment. Jute can be harvested every six months.
Making Material
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The harvested jute is spun into a thick string that is then woven into bag material using a weaving machine, and then sewn together. Jute bag making is a technical skill that Indian girls often are taught at a young age to keep them out of poverty.
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Bags' Appearance
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Jute bags are usually a brownish tinge or sometimes a bit off-white in color. The fabric is stiff and scratchy.
Uses of Bags
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The jute bag is often called a burlap bag in the U.S. and is used to carry and store potatoes, grain and sugar. Jute also is used to make versatile beach bags, reusable shopping bags, and casual purses.
Eco-Friendly Material
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Using jute as a material for bags gained popularity in North America as well as in Europe nearly a century ago because the bags are inexpensive to make and last for a long time. It was only recently that people began to use them as an eco-friendly material and jute began to be used in fashionable and trendy sustainable clothing and bags.
History of Jute
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Harvesting jute has been an important labor skill for thousands of years throughout India because historically jute was used to make rope.
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