Coir, Coir Handicrafts

There are several coir factories that are engaged in manufacturing fashionable and present-day floor coverings that concentrate more on the excellent quality, modernization along with not harming the social environment as well as the surroundings.

Some of the high styled product range includes fine doormats, matting, and rugs that are made of biodegradable fibers such as, sisal, coir, grass, chenille, sisal and paper apart from synthetics.

Coir is basically a coarse fiber that is extracted from the fibrous outer shell of a coconut. Coir fibers are normally found stuck between the husk and the outer shell of a coconut.

The coir fiber is relatively water-proof and is amongst one of the few natural fibers that usually avoid getting damaged by salt water.

The individual fiber cells are usually narrow and hollow, with they are thick walls made of cellulose.

Commonly used for making floor mats, doormats, brushes, mattresses, floor tiles and sacks.

Mature brown coir fibers feature more lignin and less of cellulose than fibers like flax and cotton and so turn out to be much stronger but less flexible.

Fresh water is used to process brown coir, where as water coir is made out of the production of sea water and fresh water.

The process of extracting coir is quite tedious and lengthy. The first step is where the coconut husk is immersed in water for rubberized about a month.

After that is done, the softened husk is beaten in order to separate the fiber from the husk.

This is followed by weaving coir and the coir-foam is normally used to make mattresses and pillow-covers.