Jute/ Burlap fabrics

Has anyone worked with these beyond grocery totes or landscape fabric uses?  In my climate it's the breathable and cool fabrics that are most practical.  I am seeing articles that claim many sweltering tropical climates commonly use jute to make clothing.   The coarse texture is visually appealing to me and I have found a deep silver and rich red being sold as wedding decorations specifically touting their high thread count.

I am currently thinking a partially lined shirt so I get maximum cooling from the loose weave without showing off all my undergarments or being driven bonkers by coarse material against sensitive skin. I don't know how scratchy it is to wear or if it's a fiber that can become very soft with use. It's the kind of thing I probably won't be able to make a decision on quickly because I will need to test the durability as well.  I have a couple of wonderful tops with lace decoration that are impractical because things catch on the lace and I do worry that could be an issue with this loose of a weave as well.  It will take a while regardless as I have other projects coming down the pipeline right now.

I have seen it used to cool food in a "coolgardie safe" by evaporation.
Also it can cool rooms with water being applied to the fabric via strips of cotton sitting in a water bath above and looping down the walls and fastened to the jute.
The water is drawn down by conduction.
From Coolgardie safe
"The Coolgardie safe is a low-tech food storage unit, using evaporative cooling to prolong the life of whatever edibles are kept in it.
It applies the basic principle of heat transfer which occurs during evaporation of water (see latent heat and heat of evaporation).
It was named after the place where it was invented – the small mining town of Coolgardie, Western Australia, near Kalgoorlie-Boulder."