Abstract
To investigate the characteristics of lotus fiber length and fineness to provide theoretical basis for developing lotus fiber products, 1500 fibers were extracted by physical method from tip part, middle part and bottom part of lotus stalks (500 fibers for each part) and measured. The analysis showed that the length range of lotus fiber was about 31-50 mm, generally, fibers from tip part are longer, fibers from bottom part are shorter, and fibers from middle part were average in normal distribution. The fineness range of single fiber was 3.963-4.516µm (less than 5 µm, belongs to microfiber), and the finest fiber was from tip part, with smallest coefficient ofvariation. The ratio of lotus fiber length to fineness was about 104, which can meet the textile processing requirement.
