I thought for the longest time it was made out of petroleum because it has a sci-fi name, but when I finally got around to looking it up, it has nothing to do with petrochemicals. It's been around since 1885, and involves a chemical treatment of cellulose. Among other sources, you can use bamboo, which grows like a damn weed.
They badmouth it through the entire article, but here's a flat-ass lie in Wikipeda:
The durability and appearance retention of regular viscose rayons are low, especially when wet; also, rayon has the lowest elastic recovery of any fiber.... Recommended care for regular viscose rayon is dry-cleaning only.
I have shirts that I've machine washed hundreds of times and they have no holes and show no wear or fading. The material feels like silk, which they admit on wiki. The shirts are no more expensive than pima cotton.
I thought all clothes were going to get made out of rayon, but in all the years I've known these things, I've never heard anyone mention any of them.
Here's one no one talks about: rayon.
I thought for the longest time it was made out of petroleum because it has a sci-fi name, but when I finally got around to looking it up, it has nothing to do with petrochemicals. It's been around since 1885, and involves a chemical treatment of cellulose. Among other sources, you can use bamboo, which grows like a damn weed.
They badmouth it through the entire article, but here's a flat-ass lie in Wikipeda:
I have shirts that I've machine washed hundreds of times and they have no holes and show no wear or fading. The material feels like silk, which they admit on wiki. The shirts are no more expensive than pima cotton.
I thought all clothes were going to get made out of rayon, but in all the years I've known these things, I've never heard anyone mention any of them.