Sisal
The sisal ( Sisal plant sisalana ) is a plant of the family of the Agavaceae originating in the east of the Mexico where one also finds it under the name of henequén. Sisal is also the name of the Fiber extracted the Feuille S of this plant. Very resistant, this fiber is used with manufacture of rope, fabric S coarse, Tapis.
It was until in the Années 1970 well-known of the European farmers in the form of string being used to bind the bundles of hay. It has, since the appearance of the presses with boots high density, summer replaced by string in Polypropylène.
Actuellement still, the movements scouts and scouts use much this type of string to assemble constructions of the furniture of Assemblage camp according to the Froissart method where neither nails nor screw are utilisés.
It is also used for in the manufacture of the traditional targets of play of Fléchettes or Tir to the arc.
The sisal is also used by certain Asian minorities such as the Dai of the Yunnan in China or the Hmong of the Laos in the artisanal clothes industry of their clothing.
The origin of its name comes from the town of Sisal located in the province of the Yucatán at the Mexico. It is starting from the port of this city that the fibers in the whole world were dispatched.
Other species of sisal plants provide also sisal.
At the time of the period ostentation, the exploitation of the seedlings of sisal was done under the control of the great landowners of Hacienda S. the chimneys of these great fields still slice by place in the vast plain of the Yucatán. The culture of this plant is from now on anecdotic but one finds in Mexico of the artisanal articles exclusively manufactured starting from this fiber and of which most known are the Hamac S or the bells of sisal or parasisal to manufacture the hats.
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