Talk:Jute

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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)

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[edit] 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!

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)