Some new products I recently stumbled upon being sold now are made from Bamboo and Soy. The only difference is these products are not used for flooring or consumption but instead for clothing.
The idea of using other materials for clothing aside from cotton and wool are quite common. For years we have worn shirts made from things such as Polyester, Hemp, Cotton, Wool and of course Silk. Many types of fabric are blends of different materials some of which are even made from recycled pop bottles.
Hemp has been used to make clothing for a very long time. It is also been used to make medicine for thousands of years. It’s a very versatile material. Soy is a relatively new material being used to make clothing. It is made from leftover materials from other Soy product manufacturing processes like Tofu. It is soft and resistant to UV rays and bacteria which not many other materials are. When discarded it is biodegradable which helps to eliminate waste. Bamboo is pretty neat too. In it’s natural state it is a very strong plant that is believe it or not part of the Grass Family not a tree. It is regarded as a very comfortable material. Bamboo fabric is produced in two ways: 1. Mechanically and 2. Chemically. Mechanically it is crushed and the mushy bamboo can then be spun “Mechanically” into fiber. The Chemical method is more toxic however and unfortunately more common as it is less time consuming to produce. So Chemically produced Bamboo is not always a good choice but Mechanically produced Bamboo or “Bamboo Linen” can still be found if you are determined enough.
These are just some of the materials being used to make clothing that can be considered natural but sometimes we have to beware of the manufacturing processes used to make them. As technology progresses so will the different types of materials we will be wearing in the future.
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