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I'm not sure how long they've been making them. Mostly I've seen bamboo socks, rather than outerwear, but for the sake of comparison I can't see why it can't be
by stephenr 3y ago
I'm not sure how long they've been making them. Mostly I've seen bamboo socks, rather than outerwear, but for the sake of comparison I can't see why it can't be used for non-sock uses.
- hinkley 3y agoI’ve seen shirts. Rayon is a process, not a material. It’s somewhere in the range of satin or silk. This wood fiber I haven’t seen unblended so I don’t know what its consistency is like, but I would guess in the neighborhood of flax. Softer than hemp, rougher than cotton. Whether it’s softer or rougher than linen I could not tell you.
- NoImmatureAdHom 3y agoI don't think that's quite right. Rayon / viscose is basically: you take some cellulosic material (wood pulp, could be bamboo pulp, whatever) and dissolve it in a strong basic solution. You now have cellulose in solution. Then, you shoot it out of tiny holes to make almost 100% cellulose fibers of whatever diameter (the hole size). Then you make this into yarns and weave it into something. You can make it seem like silk, cotton, wool, whatever. I don't think the feedstock has much to do with it (though lignin-containing vs. not is an issue).
- hinkley 3y agoWhat's 'new' is that someone started making a big deal about bamboo as the feedstock about 15, 20 years ago, as a renewable material. Apparently the rayon process was patented in 1892.
- saiya-jin 3y agoI had long sleeves t-shirt some 13 years ago. Good at wicking sweat, iirc a bit itchy, but couldnt use it in winter since it was cooling me down way too much, when I needed warmth.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoI have bamboo sheets. They are really comfortable.