The document discusses processing corn husk fibre for textile usage, including extraction, spinning, and weaving. Corn husk fibre is extracted through treatment with sodium hydroxide and bleached using hydrogen peroxide. The fibres are then spun individually or blended with other natural fibres like cotton. Weaving produces a fabric from the yarn. The fabric is softer and more suitable for textiles when blended with other fibres to improve strength. The research aims to develop sustainable textile materials from an agricultural waste product.

1. Pre-Dissertation

2. Processing of Corn Husk Fibre
for Textile Usages
(Extraction, Spinning, Weaving)
Presented To:
Ms. Rubeena Saxena
Mrs. Radhika Seth
Mrs. Meenakshi Kumar Seth
Ms. Geetika Gumber
Presented By :
Priyanka Kaushalyayan
M. Voc. (Textiles)
2nd Year

3. Eat it, spin it, wear it, use it. The humble corn
plant may hold the answer to the future of
nutrition and sustainable fashion

5. Introduction
• The leafy outer shell/covering of an ear of maize is
referred to as corn husk. Each husk is relatively thin and
flat, unlike the adult and juvenile foliar leaves.
• Corn fibre is also known as Ingeo fibre
• Corn husk fibres consists of high cellulosic content about
80-87 % and low content of lignin of about 6-8 %. Corn
husk provides renewable and low cost source of cellulosic
fibre.

6. • This crop generates fodder which includes stalk, leaves
and husks that have been considered for a variety of uses
• This crop generates fodder which includes stalk, leaves
and husks that have been considered for a variety of uses
• This corn fodder typically consists of about 50% of stalks,
23% of leaves, 15% of cobs and 14% of husk.
• Approximately 844 million tons of corns are generated
throughout the world every year, out of which 69% of
eco-friendly and bio-degradable crop is being wasted.
India is at the 6th rank in corn production

7. Benefits of Corn Husk Fibres
• Corn fabrics have the same durability as any other
materials.”
• With global warming concerns, corn fabrics can help you
say bye-bye to heat and sweat. Corn clothes can fight off
humidity by diffusing perspiration into the air, providing
your body with wearable air conditioning.
• Like other eco friendly fabrics, corn fibres provide the
equivalent SPF 60 sun protection due to their higher UV
rays resistance.”

8. • The fabrics produced from corn husk fibre have the
distinctive advantage of moderate strength, toughness and
high elongation with high durability, pliability and
softness.

9. Aims & Objectives
• Corn Husk is an agricultural by product which is
generally being discarded as waste.
• To conserve natural resources and to fight with problem
of pollution, this is a great solution by recycling of such
wastes into sustainable, energy efficient textile materials.
• In this study, we are making an effort to develop a green
fabric using CH fibers by extracting them with alkali,
enzyme, bleach and softening agent.

10. • The extracted cornhusk fibres were then assessed for its
properties to find out if they are sustainable for various
textile applications.

11. Justification for the Study
• The fabric developed from cornhusk is comfortable,
affordable and easy to care for.
• Most importantly, the corn husk fabric is stain resistant
and UV resistant.
• Above all, it is environment friendly as it uses very less
fuel in its production.
So, this research can be proven to be a great revolution in
textile field.

12. Uses

16. Processing of Corn Husk Fibre
(Extraction, Spinning, Weaving)

17. Extraction
• Corn Husk has to be cleaned before
the processing.
• The corn husk was treated at
concentration of 0.5% of sodium
hydroxide.
• Temperature has to be maintained at
85° C for 60 minutes.
• Material to liquor ratio at 1:30.

18. • After the treatment, fibres were then rinsed in water and
neutralized with acitic acid solution.
• The fibres were then rinsed again and dried in ambient
conditions.
• To make the fibre soft and pliable for spinning purpose, it
was treated with softener. (Modified polysiloxane micro
imulsion).

20. Spinning & Weaving
• Corn fibres were first blended with various fibres such as
cotton, polyester, and acrylic.
• Fibres were first mixed with hand and then fed into the
blowroom uniform and homogeneous and uniform
mixing.
• Thereafter, the lap is formed in the blowroom is passed
into carding machine followed by drawframe to these
slivers were taken directly to amber charkha.

21. • After spinning, weaving process of corn husk yarns is
done on looms like every other textile materials.

23. Bleaching
• The fibres extracted with alkali and enzyme, are
yellowish in colour for which bleaching treatment with
hydrogen peroxide is required.
• The bleaching would be carried out at three
concentrations i.e. 1 g/l, 2 g/l and 3 g/l of hydrogen
peroxide for 30, 60 and 90 minutes at a temperature of 85
-90°C, MLR: 1:30 and pH:10.5.

24. Dyeing
• Corn Fibre dyed at 110 – 115° C.
• Corn fibre is generally sufficiently clean to only require a
mild scour.
• The individual dye shades are hypsochromic and brighter
than on polyester fibres.
• Cornhusk fibers were found to have higher dye pickup
than cotton fibers under similar dyeing conditions.

25. Scope of the Study
• In India, pollution these days is a major issue, which is
harmful for health as well as environment.
• Industries including food, textiles and others have been
using technologies and chemicals to make their products
durable and to enhance its qualities wherever these
products are expensive and hazardous.
• This study could provide us an eco friendly product
which is going to be inexpensive, will be skin friendly
and stain resistant.

26. Limitations of the Study
• Its strength is not good enough for using it in textile
purposes to convert it into a yarn or fabric.
• So, it is needed to be blend with other natural or
synthetic fibres to make it efficiently useful in textile
matters.
• There are one another major limitation in this study is that
there is no efficient practice of corn husk fibres for textile
could be discovered.

27. Research Methodology
The research methodology of this study would be
completely based on research and analysis as per new or
existing practical approach. The research will include
primary and secondary data.
• Primary Data: The primary data would be collected from
various fibre suppliers of Delhi and Mumbai by visiting
them or interviewing them over phone calls. And another
source of primary data would be collected from NITRA,
Ghaziabad by visiting the experts there in the institute.

28. • Secondary Data: The secondary data would be gathered
by studying and analyzing the previous researches of
various institutes and organizations who have been
working with fibres. I would be referring the research
articles, publications, journals to collect the data for
further analysis.

29. Hypothesis
It is hypothesized that blending of CHF with cotton fibre
will:
• Make the CHF usable for textile purposes.
• Affect the sheen of CHF.
• Make the fabric appropriate to be converted into garment.
• Make the fabric dyeable with natural or synthetic colors.
• Create demand for corn husk fabric by replacing the
existing natural fabrics.