midgirl, Midgar, midboss — Hold on I need to DuckDuckGo something

aprillikesthings:
“Bamboo is antifungal”
Because it’s rayon
“Eucalyptus fabric is cooling!”
Yeah, because it’s rayon
“We make clothing called seacell out of seaweed!”
Yeah I looked on your website it’s made by the lyocell process, which means-
-wait for it-
It’s fucking rayon!!
Listen. There is a list of actual plant fibers that are directly made into fabric: cotton, linen, ramie, some hemp. I’m sure I’m missing a couple.
But if you’re wondering “huh how did they turn that plant material into fabric,” 99% of the time? It’s RAYON.
All rayon is made by putting plant material in chemical soup, dissolving out everything but the cellulose, and turning the cellulose into filaments/fibers.
The source of the cellulose has zero effect on the eventual fabric.
Rayon made from bamboo or eucalyptus or seaweed is not any better than rayon from any other sources.
Don’t let companies mislead you!
Hold on I need to DuckDuckGo something
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5. aprillikesthings said: @dreamingdormouse It’s increasingly common for commercial linen to use chemical retting. It does damage the fiber but it’s much much faster
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10. dreamingdormouse said: “Linen requires its own chemical soup to be turned into usable fibers unless you’re making it from flax the old fashioned way which requires a lot of time and a shit-ton of effort. (Like seriously there’s rippling, retting, breaking, scutching, and hackling. And THEN you can spin it into thread.)” Wait whut. Context: I’m a spinner, I did in fact know about retting, breaking, scutching, and hackling. (Not sure about rippling?) I can talk about the difference between dew-retted and pond-retted. What is this chemical soup thing of which you speak and why would they do that to a perfectly good bast fiber?! Admittedly, I know nothing about the modern linen industry, except that it’s much smaller than it used to be. I have watched an 80+ year old video of commercial production of linen from flax, so I know that there used to be a reasonably cost effective and large scale model for breaking, scutching, and hackling.
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