[Cob] Kenaf-Wall building

[Charmaine Taylor]

On Jul 30, 2004, at 10:33 PM, Mark Thomas wrote:

> Kenaf fiber?  Has anyone tried this in cob?  Fiber crop that is grown 
> in S. Texas.  The University of Mississippi sent me some seed and I 
> currently have a dozen plants growing.  they sure do look like another 
> plant that is of the same family (Hemp).  Hope they don't get stolen.
>
>

Kenaf should be a great fiber, I have seen it at John Stahl's 
papermaking operation in Calif.  ( www.tree.org)   he makes Agstone-- a 
papercrete like material of chopped bark/weeds, sand and cement,  ( he 
has no clay to use at all) and some lime.

he had many types of fibers he has imported for his organic hand made 
papers, and he considered kenaf to be as good as hemp I remember.


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