(1) Some even of these - like jute, sisal, coir , and kapok - only began to be imported into Britain from the nineteenth century onwards.(2) Products from coir , coconut shells, sisal, jute and a variety of other items can be put to good use, he feels.(3) Elegance and durability are even now the factors that stand in favour of coir products and coir has climbed high to occupy the pride of place in every interior decorator's purchase list.(4) Women in the atolls generally are employed only in domestic or selected duties within the family, such as tending crops and producing general handicraft items such as coir rope and woven coconut palm leaves for domestic use.(5) Oxfam's Matara team has also helped workers previously employed in the coir (coconut fibre) and lace industries.(6) Standard potting mixes made up of finely milled bark chips can altered to a specific plant's special needs by mixing them with other potting compost ingredients such as vermiculite, perlite, coir fibre or leaf mould.(7) The timbers are jungle jackfruit, the lashings are coir rope, the walls are bamboo matting and roofs are local thatch.(8) Instead of peat, some growers are starting to use coir (fibers from coconut) as a potting mix component.(9) Also, a discussion of some of the newer organic materials included in plant media, e.g. coconut coir and compost, would be appropriate.(10) The snail's protective coloration and small size make it hard to find in soil substitutes - bark, peat moss, cinder, or pieces of coconut husk, called coir - used to fill greenhouse pots.(11) The focus of the workshop would be on innovative uses of coir and coir blends as part of lifestyle interiors and also on ÔÇÿproviding an exposure to international trendsÔÇÖ.(12) More than 50 women are being trained in handicrafts using coir and plantain fibre.(13) The EPCH also plans to include a complete product group of floor coverings made of natural fibres including coir , jute, cotton, silk and wool.(14) All he had to do was paint the face white, stick bits of coir from a coconut for ears and a red beak-like nose of colour paper and presto!(15) But now, Sabu often works in the same place with simple materials such as plaster of Paris, coir fibre and gunny cloth, things that charm him forever.(16) Somewhere in between, a group of three old women in traditional attire - with big earrings - make coir from coconut husk using rusted machines.
