Talk:Jute

Fix this sentence if you know what it is supposed to mean
I partially fixed this sentence to remove the obvious redundancies and bad grammer, but it still needs work by someone who has a clue what it supposed to mean:

Old version: "Traditionally jute was used in traditional textile machineries as textile fibers having cellulose (vegetable fiber content) and lignin (wood fiber content)."

Improved but still unclear version: "Jute was used in traditional textile machinery as fibers having cellulose (vegetable fiber content) and lignin (wood fiber content)." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.96.210.230 (talk) 18:38, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

another oddly worded piece
Howard from NYC (talk) 02:11, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

CURRENT = "Sacking, a fabric made of heavy jute fibers, has its use in the name. "

Q: anyone want to offer a guess?
 * A: Sacking is the name of a fabric made of heavy jute fibres, and it is used for making sacks - I don't see the problem - Arjayay (talk) 08:51, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Production Volumes
This needs fixing but I don't have the data to do so. The table from 2011 shows Bangladesh as the largest producer by quite a margin, then India below this, and everyone else insignificat. But the text above says India is the largest producer and Bangladesh's production is way down due to demand and burning of crops. One (table or text) must be wrong but I don't know which. Can someone with genuine knowledge on the subject fix this? MatthewCummins (talk) 06:54, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Latest production volumes are available on : FAOSTAT website. Updated the table accordingly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.99.37.67 (talk) 10:57, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

International English
Since Jute is an overwhelmingly Asian crop, not North American, I consider this page should be converted from US English to International English. Any objections to my doing so? - MPF 20:08, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Good idea. Gamsarah 11:11, 16 March 2006 (UTC)


 * This proposal was completely inappropriate per WP:RETAIN. The article was originally written in American English (using the spelling "fiber), see: . Jute is an international subject, but there is no "International English"; British spellings are used in more countries where English is an official language, but that is not an argument to use British spelling for this subject. Per WP:ENGVAR, I've added an American English template to this talk page, as the article was first written in American English. Plantdrew (talk) 18:39, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Separating Articles from Institutes.
The External Links are being refered to institutes not articles. Therefore, to make the editors clear about the concept of external linking, I have separated them.

- Asif Anwar

There is also a problem with the definitions for burlap and sackcloth- It is mentioned that burlap and sackcloth are the same but in Britannia and other websites they are not! I don't have exact content for burlap and sackcloth but I don't think they are same- unless someone else thinks differently.

If 'Jute' is edited, then Burlap and Sackcloth should be edited as well and they should be classed under Jute i.e. Jute is used fpr burlap, sacks, bagging, rugs etc.

Re: I see Jute is classed as Asiatic- and Jute page should be edited!

US wholesale site www.naturaljute.com asks on behalf of US readers used to the term burlap, is there a clearer distinction between Jute and Burlap. Are they the same or is jute a higher grade?

Clarification about Jute, Burlap/Hessian, and Sackcloth
Jute is the most dominating bast fiber in the world. Therefore, most burlap/hessian/gunny & sackcloth can be found to be made of Jute. But, burlap & sackcloth can be made of other bast fibers also, like Hemp, Kenaf, flax etc.

Sackcloth is the material to make sackings or the cloth derived from sacks. Burlap/hessian/gunny (Fabric of Jute or Bast Fiber) is made for other purposes also. e.g. Shadecloth or Canvas/Tarpaulin, Nursery Blind, Trims (Webbing), etc. Therefore, Sackcloth is a type of Burlap and all sackcloths are burlap, but all burlap are not sackcloth.

- Asif Anwar

History article
A new article on the history of Jute seems to have sprung fully-formed to life. Not sure if this is a legitimate fork or not, but please consider merging as there is some evident redundancy. Just zis Guy you know? 14:01, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Dear Guy JzG, I am responsible for the article History of jute fibre. Some information are in raw form. Therefore, I am working to write it with more information and references. After finishing the article, the cleanup of the Jute article would be easy, while merging with Jute would make it look messy. Owing to this objective, I have created a separate article.

The history of Jute may be longer than the article of Jute itself. Moreover, most of the readers try to avoid the history part. Since, the history is crutial and introductory item, it can have a separate page. On the Jute article, the long texts of the history may push other important texts way down below. - User:Pathikbd, 11 June 2006.

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In the interests of coherence I believe the articles should be merged. This would be less messy than having two overlapping articles. It is also an easy task on the modern computer to skip past the history, or use the links at the top to ignore it altogether as far as the size of the history text is concerned. Biddlesby Aug 05


 * Or we could put a short history her begining with a link that says "see main article at ..." for the history. RJFJR 18:23, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia just keeps getting bigger and so do the pages in it. We don't need a whole PAGE of data on the history of jute within the Jute page. As RJFJR says, we produce a small section of History (and put it near the end of the page because people DO often want to skip it), with a link.

IceDragon64 (talk) 01:03, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

After the sentence "India is the world's largest jute growing country " there is some malformed stuff which I don't know how to fix. Thanks to whoever can ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.192.0.137 (talk) 12:58, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Animated GIFs
These blinking/animated .GIFs are horrible. In general I though Wikipedia uses animated .GIFs only where absolutely necessary for animation purposes. Here the one is used to present a little slideshow alternating between a couple of plants and the other just flips between labelling two picture elements. In either case, the article would be much better served by static (.JPG or .PNG) images. NTK 20:03, 8 August 2006 (UTC)


 * It's very distrcting when I'm trying to read and the moving video is on the screen. Do we have something else we can use? RJFJR 18:21, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Someone please change these pictures. Just put up both pictures if you have two pictures to show--don't try to make it into a looping slide show! Very distracting. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.211.26.161 (talk) 14:22, 19 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Terrible - they need to go. Rklawton (talk) 21:43, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

I agree entirely, so much that I'll do the leg work. They'll be replaced tonight. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Epheterson (talk • contribs) 21:47, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * All done, I used photoshop to make the appropriate changes to each one. for the top animated gif, I just cut it so the highlighted words for both are always solid. For the other gif, I tiled the three frames, one atop the other. If there are any suggestions, post here or on my Talk Page. Epheterson (talk) 22:13, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

PBJ
I see no mention of PBJ, polybutyl jute. A lot of PBJ insulated cable is still in service, though afaik its not installed today. Tabby (talk) 05:36, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

OTHER JUTE REFFERENCES
JUTE CAN BE REFFERED TO AS PADDING UNDER AUTOMOTIVE CARPET —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.178.225.54 (talk) 15:57, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

BBC article on jute in Bangladesh
I just found this and I think could improve the article. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14791644 --Dia^ (talk) 06:39, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Jute = Yute, other languages article already done
Hey, I don't know how to do this on wikipedia, but I found that Jute in english and Yute in spanish is the same material, so this article should have a link in Languages to this article http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corchorus_capsularis and I saw that both articles have versions in different languages, so the languages Jute has an article in are more than what we see here. Can someone edit this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.111.1.66 (talk) 13:25, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

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A bit over the top?
Lots of information- good looking page, but overall, just a bit like an advert for Bangladeshi jute. Given that according to the table in it India produces more, I removed the unreferenced statement that the best source is the mostly Bangladeshi delta; it just added up wrong to me. IceDragon64 (talk) 00:57, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

contradiction?
it says in the intro "The primary source of the fiber is Corchorus olitorius, but such fiber is considered inferior to that derived from Corchorus capsularis." olitorius being tossa jute and capsularis being white jute. later under the tossa jute section it says that tossa jute is softer, silkier and stronger than white jute. this part however seems to have no citations. so how exactly is Tossa jute inferior to white jute? Tomteayh (talk) 05:06, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

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