The first emergence of date palm dates back to 4000 B.C. in Mesopotamia

 This long history, along with the high renewability rate, has led to the accumulation of a rich technical heritage associated with the utilization of all the secondary date palm products, including whole leaves (midribs, leaflets), petioles, spadix stems, coir, date kernels and trunks. Midribs have been used in roofing, fencing, furniture making, and manufacturing crates and coops. Leaflets have been used in making mats, baskets and bags. Coir has been used in making ropes, nets, bags, brooms and fly whiskers. Spadix stems have been used in making brooms and household sieves. In addition, fibers obtained from spadix stems have been used for tying agricultural crops. The palm trunk has been used as windows lintels, beams and columns in construction. 


Moreover, trunks have been used as a wood substitute in furniture making. This chapter reveals the technical heritage associated with several traditional uses of the secondary date palm products to satisfy the human needs in the Arab region. In addition bath pouf on a stick, geometrical description of these secondary products and the procedures of their preparation are included. Keywords Date palm · Traditional handicrafts · 

Midribs · Coir · Spadix stem 1 Introduction The local materials are the material milieu by virtue of which cultures were able to express themselves meteor shower tonight. Proceeding from the historical perspective, the different cultures of the world were born and developed in company with different materials. Who could deny the relation between the ancient Egyptian culture and papyrus, lotus, 


 H. El-Mously (B) Department of Design and Production Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt e-mail: hamed.elmously@gmail.com E. A. Darwish Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt e-mail: eman.atef@eng.asu.edu.eg © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020 3 M. Midani et al. (eds.), Date Palm Fiber Composites, Composites Science and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9339-0_1 4 H. El-Mously and E. A. Darwish lime stone and granite, nor between the Asian cultures and bamboo bath sponge lot, rattan and rice? It is extremely important to capture the relation between culture and local materials as an important asset for development. The linking between development and local

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