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AN Empire Fibres Exhibition is open at the Exhibition Pavilion of the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, S.W.7, until April 9. The object of the exhibition is partly to interest the general public, and especially school-children visiting the Institute, in vegetable fibres of the Empire, in the various methods of preparation for the market and in the different products into which they are converted; partly to interest technical experts and business men in existing and potential uses for Empire fibres. A series of eight stands or ‘bays' comprise the exhibition. Two central bays, facing each other, are devoted to flax and linen exhibits organised by the Linen Industry Research Association with its headquarters at Lambeg, Northern Ireland. Here there are a number of exhibits showing the cultivation and processing of flax and its conversion into linen; also the various lines of research carried out at the Lambeg Research Institute under the guidance of the director, Dr. W. H. Gibson, and at the Flax Research Institute near Sandringham under Mr. G. O. Searle. There are also stands illustrating, for New Zealand, the cultivation and uses of phormium fibre, and for India, jute, sunn hemp, coir and palmyra. The Hard Fibres Section of the British Empire Producers' Organisation has arranged a comprehensive group of exhibits of sisal and sisal manufactures, the collection and display of which were entrusted to Dr. Gibson and his sisal research staff at Lambeg. Other stands display Mauritius hemp, Ceylon coir, West African piassava, Cyprus hemp and manila hemp from Borneo.
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Empire Fibres Exhibition. Nature 137, 527–528 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137527d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137527d0