Saturday 26 May 2012

Bamboo fabrics – Traditional uses – Modern Bamboos


Fabrics, yarn and clothing can be made by bamboo fibres.. In the past history, bamboos are used mostly for structural elements such as bustles, rids of corset but nowadays technologies have been growth up higher where bamboo fibres are using for textile and fashion details..

Recent days bamboo clothing is produced from more or less 100%bamboo yarn or a blend of bamboo and cotton fibre..., Bamboo material can also be blended with some clothing fibres such as hemp and spandex ahich has an elastic property.


Conventional Uses: 
In countries China and Japan, thin tiles of bamboo material were woven together into hats and sandals. Single exacting design of bamboo hats was connected with pastoral life, being worn approximately generally by farmers and fishermen in sort of protecting their heads from the sun light.

Bamboo next to other elements such as whalebone and steel wire was used as a structural material for corsets, fashionable women’s dresses, etc., in the western side.

Modern Bamboos:
Modern technologies include cellulose processed from bamboo to be twisted into viscose yarn. Modern bamboo yarn is consequently redeveloped cellulose fibre.

Bamboo fibre has many advantages over cotton fibres as a basic substance for textile Industry. Getting up to 35 metres high, bamboo trees are the major members of the grass family….. Bamboos are the greatest growing woody plants in the world.

One Japanese variety has been proved as growing over 1 metre in a day.

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