Mostly because of its grand softness, placid hand, flowing and soft drape, and leisurely price at least compared with silk and cashmere and eco friendly cachet, bamboo has earned entry throughout the fashion industry. But it has been the trumpets heralding bamboo as the recent and best sustainable eco-fabric that have been the most blatant. And some of the hoopla is justified. Growing bamboo is a wonderfully beneficial plant for the planet and most is naturally organic bamboo. The manufacturing processes where bamboo the plant is transmuted into bamboo the fabric are where the sustainability and eco-friendly splendor of bamboo is damaged because of the enceinte chemicals, some of which are toxic, that are usually required.

Very, very small amounts bamboo clothing would measure up as sustainable or organic clothes. Heres the scoop. Botanically categorized as a grass and not a tree, bamboo just could be the worlds most sustainable resource. It is the fastest growing grass and can shoot up a yard or further a day. Bamboo reaches maturity quickly and is available for harvesting in about 4 years. Bamboo doesn't require replanting after harvesting because its huge root network continually sprouts latest shoots which almost zoom up while you watch them, pulling in sunlight and greenhouse gases and converting them to latest raw growth.

And bamboo does this the natural way without the demand for petroleum-guzzling tractors and poisonous pesticides and fertilizers. Bamboo the plant is wonderfully sustainable; bamboo the fabric is not so leisurely to categorize. There are two ways to process bamboo to produce the plant into a fabric: mechanically or chemically. The mechanical way is by crushing the woody pieces of the bamboo plant and then use natural enzymes to crush the bamboo walls into a slushy mass so that the natural fibers can be mechanically combed out and spun into yarn. This is essentially the equivalent eco-friendly manufacturing process used to create linen fabric from flax or hemp. Bamboo fabric created from this process is sometimes called bamboo linen.

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References:

1. Home Page

Bamboosa makes bamboo fiber clothing and baby products. / Bamboo Fine Jersey Sash. Cooler weather is here! Bamboo Jersey Scarf to wrap yourself in gorgeous /

URL: http://www.bamboosa.com/

2. Bamboo Clothing from Bamboo Styles

Offering a range of casual wear for men and women made from bamboo fabric. Bamboo Styles features T-shirts, polos, yoga pants, and more.

URL: http://www.bamboostylesonline.com/

3. Bamboo Clothes

Bamboo Clothes,Spun Bamboo / Children's Clothing. Hand Knitting Yarn. Welcome to The Spun Bamboo Store. 1/4 Crew Natural Socks /

URL: http://www.bambooclothes.com/

4. Welcome to www.bamboofiber.com

Offers clothing for women, men, and babies made out of bamboo fabric. / Yes, it's really made of bamboo! Soft, breathable, natural clothing /

URL: http://www.bambootextile.com/

5. Shirts Of Bamboo - "Life is better in bamboo..." - Shirts Of Bamboo

Organically grown clothing made from bamboo has particular / Bamboo clothing's natural anti-bacteria function differs greatly / Bamboo clothing is strong /

URL: http://www.shirtsofbamboo.com/

More About Bamboo Clothing:

(further info on Why Buy Bamboo Fiber Clothing)

6. Cool Hunting: Bam Clothing

EcoDesignz / Bamboo Fiber Clothing And Yarn. Bamboo Clothing. Bamboo / Bamboo Fiber Clothing And Yarn. Bamboo T-Shirts. Price:$17.00. Qty in Basket: none /

URL: http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2006/07/bam_clothing.php

7. Bamboo Fiber Clothing And Yarn: Bamboo Products For A Sustainable Future

Bamboo Styles carries bamboo clothing such as yoga pants, polos, t-shirts and more. / Bamboo clothing and Office Chair too, offers an alternative to the traditional fabrics, and /

URL: http://www.ecodesignz.com/page/ED/CTGY/Clothing/

8. Bamboo Clothing for Women

Ladies Bamboo Tangerine Hoody $40.00. Army Green V-neck Short Sleeve / Copyright © 2006 Bamboo Clothes Canada, site design © 2005, 2006 Ben Anderson /

URL: http://www.bamboostylesonline.com/woprca.html

Bamboo Fiber Clothing ( Clothes out of Bamboo ) in the News

• Outdoors: Bamboo rods break (The Sentinel)

  Wyatt, who builds bamboo fly rods, phoned from the third parking lot downstream from the springhead on Big Spring. He said he wanted to let me know that a huge brown trout broke one of his bamboo rods. 9 hours ago

• The Bamboo boys (Honolulu Advertiser)

  They are Darrell H. Y. Lum and Eric Chock, co-editors of Bamboo Ridge literary magazine. And to many, they might as well be one person: They met at Ma'ema'e Elementary and shared Kawananakoa, McKinley High School, the University of Hawai'i and the cultural revolution of the '60s and '70s. 27 hours ago

• Unique All-Natural Bamboo Powder Soap Made With Organic Ingredients Provides Rich Lather, Nourishing Minerals, Gentle ... (PRWeb)

  The new bamboo soap from BabyBam Collection called "Little Lathers" contains absolutely no synthetic chemicals, preservatives, parabens, phthalates, petroleum products, artificial dyes, FD&C colorants, EDTA, TEA, DEA, synthetic fragrance oils, triclosan, sodium laurel or laureth sulfates. It is a perfect cleanser for infants, children, nursing moms, and women with sensitive, dry skin. (PRWeb ... 2 days ago