Material and fiber questions

Dec 09, 2007 21 Replies

After half an hour or so with Google, I finally found a manufacturer's web site which admitted that the new bamboo fiber that is all the rage now is "regenerated" -- so add "bamboo" to the list of rayons.

Unfortunately, I was so chuffed to find the datum that I forgot to notice the manufacturer's name or save the URL.

For further research: are the old-time protein fibers made from corn and soybeans regenerated or synthetic? And a philosophical question: should there be a new category, "concocted", for fiberglass, which is man-made, but neither regenerated nor synthetic.

"Concocted" might also fit the vegetable-protein manmades; certainly there are no protein fibers in seeds, so "regenerated" wouldn't fit very well. I don't remember enough about them to feed keywords into Google, I might get find their names by reading related articles in Wikipedia, and one of them was marketed as "soysilk" a few years ago.

Joy Beeson

That is really interesting, Joy.

Last autumn we were in New Hampshire at a Craft/Fall Festival. There was a lady there who spun her own yarn. Also she had items made of bamboo. I had never heard of this before, but the weave was so close, and it had a very soft touch.

Gillian

Gillian

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