Advantages & Disadvantages of Natural Textile fibre
Advantages of Natural Fibre
- Comfortable: Clothes made by natural fibres are more comfortable than those made of synthetic fibres.
- Environment: Producing materials from natural fibres are less harmful to our environment.
- Non allergic to skin.
Disadvantages of Natural Fibre
- Expensive: Materials produced by natural fibres are generally expensive as synthetic fibres can be made easily by manufacturing.
- Shrink: Natural fibres might shrink due to aggressive washing.
- Unlike manmade fibres, natural fibres are not available in high tenacity (HT) and medium tenacity (MT).
- Natural fibres do not possess a high degree of resiliency as compared to manmade fibres, hence the fabrics made out of them do get wrinkles from ‘baggy knees’, possess less crease recovery.
- Production of natural fibres cannot be completely controllable. Therefore, from year to year quantities of specific qualities vary and this tends to cause price fluctuations according to variations in demand which cannot be foreseen until the fibres have been produced.
- Variation in length, fineness, etc. of the natural fibre causes less regular and uniform yarn than that obtained from manmade fibres.
- The availability of natural fibres is affected by natural calamities and vagaries of nature.
- The production of natural fibres involves the use of land which is also required for growing the agriproducts. With the availability of limited amount of land on the surface of the earth, the demand for land for food and housing on one hand and that for the growth of natural fibres on the other is to be balanced.
