Abbott says the material is strong enough to fall somewhere between fiberglass and carbon fiber ... flooring to textiles, paper and water processing, so the thought of turning to bamboo for ...

A third category of fabric is known as semi-synthetic fabrics. The difference between these and synthetic fabrics is that the natural resource used to make the polymers in the fibers comes from wood ...

Meanwhile, California-based Ettitude's Clean Bamboo woven material has ... of molecules that leads to silk fibers." It's worth noting that silk fabric produced by spiders was never commercialized ...

[PHOTO:KIBATA KIHU/STANDARD] A United Kingdom agricultural firm is seeking to open major commercial bamboo cultivation along the Kenyan Coast for the manufacture of textiles, food and fragrances.