Bamboo Fabric

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Benefits and Features of Bamboo Fiber Garments

Bamboo fiber is a revolutionary new fabric that has unparalleled advantages, including strength, versatility and luxurious softness. In a relatively short time, clothing made from bamboo fiber has made it to the top ranks of fabric choices.

It's only been in the past few years that Bamboo has been discovered to have huge potential in textiles. Bamboo is actually a tropical grass that grows rapidly and without the need of much water or any pesticides and is naturally regenerative. The pulp of the bamboo is made into fiber, which can then be knit or woven in a variety of way.

Our bamboo is certified organic by the OCIA, whether from wild grown or farm grown sources.

Bamboo fabric is knitted from fiber spun from bamboo pulp. The fabric is bleached without the use of chlorine. Bamboo fabric takes low-impact dyes beautifully and does not need to be chlorine bleached or to have color fixative chemicals applied. Also, the Bamboo fabric is used for a range of clothing, such as shirts, dresses, socks and slacks is ideal for active wear. Bamboo is often blended with 30% organic cotton or a small amount of spandex to add structure to garments.

Bamboo is extremely soft and comfortable! -- even more so than the softest cotton. It is also silkier and drapes beautifully. The bamboo/organic cotton blends are also very soft, but are heavier in weight and provide more structure.

Bamboo wicks moisture! It naturally ventilates and does not cling in hot weather or during exercise. Bamboo is four times more absorbent than cotton. Bamboo is perfect for performance and exercise wear!

Bamboo Charcoal helps naturally regulate body heat, wick moisture, resist UV rays and inhibit odor. Fast-growing bamboo is harvested, dried and heated at high temperatures until it becomes bamboo charcoal. After being broken down into extremely fine particles, the bamboo charcoal is then infused throughout the fabric and knit into our exceptionally fine high performance sport shirts.

While some don't think of polyester as natural, polyester from bamboo charcoal is natural and has no petroleum products. It is also fire resistant, doesn't shrink, wicks moisture, doesn't stick to your skin, and is wrinkle and stain resistant. The combination of Bamboo Charcoal and polyester is the natural solution for comfort and performance.

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The icon to the left indicates that the item contains a majority of bamboo. It assures you that the listed product will demonstrate all the advantages you have come to expect from fine bamboo fabrics.

Organic Cotton

Organic cotton is simply cotton that is grown without pesticides or chemicals, and is not genetically modified. In order to be certified organic, the cultivator must follow strict standards, including crop rotation and only the use of natural and approved products that inhibit insects. Our cotton has been certified organic by the OCIA. While this means that the production of organic cotton is more expensive than conventional cotton, the organic methods promote long-term better health, a better environment and replenished soil fertility. This is extremely important because the way cotton is grown world-wide is particularly pesticide intensive. Cotton production uses more chemicals per unit area than any other crop and accounts in total for 16% of the world's pesticides¹. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 20,000 deaths occur each year from pesticide poisoning in the developing countries, many of these from cotton farming².
¹ "Picking Cotton Carefully" Institute of Science in Society, March 2007 and www.wikipedia.org
² ibid.