Title

Bamboo: Green and Breathable Natural fiber.

Authors

R., Rekha; Sudam, Ashwini

Abstract

With the growing demand for more comfortable, healthier and environment friendly products, efforts in R & D activities in textile industry have focused on the utilization of renewable and bio-degradable resources as well as environmentally sound manufacturing processes in textiles. Bamboo fibre is one of them, which has been known from several years, however their applications were meagre. Nowadays, bamboo concerns people closely in their everyday life and plays an important role in society economic construction. While recently, it is a new topic for discussion in the application of bamboo resource that natural bamboo fiber can be used to spin and weave. In this respect, the present article gives an overview about the bamboo fibres.

Subjects

BAMBOO; PLANT fibers; TEXTILES; GREEN products; TEXTILE industry; RESEARCH & development; MANUFACTURING processes

Publication

Man-Made Textiles in India, 2009, Vol 52, Issue 11, p397

ISSN

0377-7537

Publication type

Academic Journal