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FYI... Bamboo = rayon.Originally Posted by archetypal_yuppie
I found this:
Bamboo the plant is wonderfully sustainable; bamboo
the fabric isn't so easy to categorize. There are two ways to
process bamboo to make the plant into a fabric: mechanically
or chemically. The mechanical way is by crushing the woody
parts of the bamboo plant and then use natural enzymes to
break the bamboo walls into a mushy mass so that the natural
fibers can be mechanically combed out and spun into yarn. This
is essentially the same eco-friendly manufacturing process used
to produce linen fabric from flax or hemp. Bamboo fabric made
from this process is sometimes called bamboo linen. Very little
bamboo linen is manufactured for clothing because it is more labor
intensive and costly.
Chemically manufactured bamboo fiber is a regenerated cellulose
fiber similar to rayon or modal. Chemically manufactured bamboo is
sometimes called bamboo rayon because of the many similarities in
the way it is chemically manufactured and similarities in its fee
and hand.
(Source. I'm not an expert, so I can't judge the reliability of the source.)
