In 2003, Lottie Herod of Cawker City, left, tried to reach the top of the “World’s Largest Ball of Twine” with Linda Clover, the “keeper of the twine.” Cawker City was celebrating the 50th anniversary ...

Mr Alex Odundo demonstrates how sisal fibre is processed using one of his home-made machines, called the decorticator. Right: The spooling machine, which is used to twine sisal fibres. The machine ...

A group of farmers is wrapping up hay bales with an old-fashioned twine to test it as an alternative to plastic string and plastic netting. The twine, made from the sisal plant, was commonly used by ...

The ancient Aztec and Mayan civilisations were perhaps the first to begin making paper out of sisal leaves. Since then, the stiff, green sword-like leaves have been used to make twine, cloth, and ...