**2. Design and development of jute-based needle-punched nonwoven**

Designing of needle-punched nonwoven from jute and its blend plays a very important role as far as the end product is concerned. The variation on fabric properties changes on various factors, like fabric weight, needling density, depth of needle penetration, needle gauge, blending of jute with other fibres, type of jute fibre used, pre-treatment of jute fibre, etc. Out of these various factors, the most influencing parameters are fabric weight, needling density, depth of needle penetration, and blending of jute with other fibres. Thus, the designing and development of jute needle-punched nonwoven neural network modelling approach holds good for designing, modelling, and the prediction of important properties. The following discussions describe these aspects.
