From the archive record
These plants take nearly 3 months, to grow to a height of 12 to 15 ft, during the season and then cut & bundled and kept immersed in water for "Retting" process, where the inner stem and outer, get separated and the outer plant gets 'individualised', to form a Fibre. Then the plant get separated and washed to remove dust from the plant The fibre after drying is taken to Jute mills, for getting converted to Jute yarn and Hessian /Gunny Fabrics/ bags. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on 4K, 200 fps slow motion, Full HD, HDCAM 1080i High Definition, Alexa and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing