The textiles of fatshion: plants

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The following are a list of plants used to make textiles:

Grass
Rush
Hemp
Sisal
Coir (aka coconut)
Straw
Bamboo
Cotton
Rice
Nettle
Jute
Modal
Seaweed
Pineapple
Ramie

While some aren’t necessarily used for clothing – grass, rush, and hemp are better known for their use in producing rope – new technologies for weaving and production change what’s possible and the specific types of cloth that can be produced every few years. So, for instance, hemp shirts used to involve something that resembled a hair shirt. Now, you can enjoy a nice-feeling weave. What has only industrial/non apparel uses today could easily transfer to apparel in the future.