• CoffeeTails@lemmy.world
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    You don’t start something important with a “hey guess what”, soooooo no reason to be upset.

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    DING!

    “Huh, a text. I’ll get to that later.”

    DING!

    “Another one? That’s concerning.”

    DING! DING! DING!

    “Fuck this is must be some kind of emergency! I need to park my forklift and read this right now!”

    It’s bamboo

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    It’s not that simple. The fabric most commonly made from bamboo is rayon, and rayon can be made from any cellulose fiber. Most rayon processes are actually pretty awful; they produce a lot of waste that’s not great for the environment. Rayon–regardless of the source of the cellulose–is weaker than cotton, and tends to tear very easily when wet. You can process bamboo in a way that is much more environmentally responsible, but then you get a fiber that’s more like linen rather than cotton. But very little bamboo fabric is made that way.

    Overall, hemp is probably the most environmentally friendly fiber out there. It’s not perfect, but it requires less pesticides, can be used as part of crop rotation (for the few farmers that do rotate crops), and needs less water to grow. It also grows in more climate zones. The fibers are harder to work with, and water is usually required to process them to a useful state, but you get very long staple fibers that are quite strong.

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      Came here for this.

      I’m partial to flax linen, even though it’s not quite as good sustainability-wise as hemp.

      It’s almost as absorbent and has similar anti microbial properties. But the main thing is it’s softer.

      Hemp does appear to soften up over time but it can’t match linen’s particular soft smooth suppleness in the short nor the long run.

      That said, the last decade or so “linen” is being made with factory processes using fibre ends instead of full strands. So it’s getting harder and harder to find real linen material that doesn’t break down in a couple years.

      They’re even weaving jersey (stretch) material from it which is ridiculous, and eschews many of the benefits of the material. -_-

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        Linen is also a lot easier to work with. Hemp wovens are not very stable at all; the fibers slide around on each other, so you can easily end up with skewed pattern pieces. It also ravels easily. The 14oz hemp twill I’ve got is quite nice, but it’s a challenging material to work with if you’re used to 10-12 cotton denim.

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        Oh, and I think that more linen is being grown now, since flax seed and flax oil seems to be more popular as general food items now. I use a lot of flax meal when I make my grain-flour-free/sugar-free banana bread, because it helps prevent the ‘bread’ from feeling excessively dry. So maybe we’ll start seeing more linen in the market as a byproduct of the flax seed and oil production?

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        I believe–IIRC, and it’s been a while–that Tencel is either a specific process for making rayon, or is a brand. What you should be looking for in rayon that makes it better is closed-loop manufacturing. But US product labeling doesn’t require that kind of information; you’d have to ask the company that made the apparel, and they’d have to ask their mill or reseller.

        Finding information about how green any part of the sewn-products industry is is very nearly an exercise in futility, unfortunately; companies don’t have to have the information, and they don’t have to disclose it.

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      and it also looks super cool! bamboo is one of my favorite plants. I’ve been thinking about how I can incorporate it into my landscaping at home.

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        not gonna lie, knowing how fast bamboos grow and how healthy they are etc. I think they would be an amazing inclusion to many buildings around, we need some wood and greens in our very grey cities after all- even better if living trees, although the last one is a bit too much and fantastical and that is why I would support that lol (check out green roofs though, they are viable and amazing)

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          Is it easy to direct its growth though?

          My childhood home got bamboo all of a sudden. It was everywhere in the backyard and such a bitch for my dad to cut down. They’re like underground vines, snaking around as well.

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          omg!! I have a flat roof and could potentially pull of a green roof! thanks for sharing. I’m gonna learn a little more about how that would affect the structural integrity of the roof and my insurance. I love the idea though.

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            Please, please do not plant bamboo on your flat roof, dear lord, it would rip it to shreds.
            Bamboo is so “sustainable” because it has a frickin out of control growth rate root system and invasiveness. yikes!

            Pots only! until you see just how devastating it is first hand!

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            that would be epic c: Solarpunk stuff is really cool, also check out perovskite new gen solar panels- they are more efficient and cheaper than silicon solars and just came out to market

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              I appreciate the consideration! I absolutely will not plant any bamboo on my roof. I was more thinking about how to plant it in the yard, and the roof would be more for just grass. However, now that I think about it more, I’m wondering if I the benefits are worth me risking the integrity of my house and carrying a lawnmower up the ladder every time I need to mow 😆

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    Someone just repeated the PR of a bamboo company :x

    I mean I love my bamboo bedsheets/covers.pillowcases and I rave about them to anyone, always IRL, but they were SO SO expensive.

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    Also throw modal fabric in the mix! Seems to be some conflicting write-ups on whether bamboo or modal is more sustainable (they’re both way better than cotton!), and Google Scholar is failing me. But it seems like bamboo uses a bit less water and is more durable, while modal is softer and more breathable.

    I have bamboo undershirts and modal underwear, and they’re both amazingly comfortable! Never going back to cotton for base layers.

    But yeah, I’m here for the random-ass trivia!

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    Not only is it interesting, and not only is it something they could have left for later

    But why would someone be upset at a quick 10 second mental break from work? Take a second to breath. Let out some stress. You didn’t send them a novel and require them to read it then and there and throw all of their work off. It was just a quick little micro break.