Well, that was quite interesting.
A bit of a long read, which kinda talked in circles too much…
It felt a bit like AI text, rather than being planned and written by a human. Plus the “About the author” section is a little suspicious:
Sewport Support Team is the founder and CEO of Sewport - an online marketplace connecting brands and manufacturers, former founder of various clothing manufacturing services. He is passionate about e-commerce, marketing and production digitisation. Connect with Boris on LinkedIn.
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It starts by naming the author as a generic group of people, then uses the pronoun “he” followed by “Connect with Boris” — so is it a single, human CEO, or is it the support team? Or maybe it’s a one-man company, and Boris is the CEO and the support team? (or maybe there was a mutiny, and the CEO got downgraded to support team?)
Anyway, probably the more important part is the claims it makes about bamboo fabric being “very breathable” and high moisture-wicking abilities. Suspiciously at odds with what some Mehtizans have said here. (I haven’t knowingly experienced any form of bamboo fabric, so I have no opinion of my own yet.)
@xobzoo I have some bamboo running socks, I quite like them. Comfy, breathable, and they have handled water fairly well. I think wool is probably still better for moisture, but it’s not a massive gap. Certainly much better than cotton!
if you want to experience the benefits touted by bamboo fabric manufacturers, it’s necessary to avoid bamboo viscose and choose genuine fibers or lyocell-like bamboo cellulose fabrics instead.
Mechanically-produced fine bamboo fiber … is the only option that can be considered to be true “bamboo fabric.” It is relatively expensive and time-consuming to produce, but it offers far greater benefits
So there’s low quality bamboo rayon to look out for…
I have some Bamboo sheets I got from meh in an irk a while ago and I think they’re great. I use them at my dads house which doesn’t have a/c and the humidity can get anywhere from 70-90% or above on summer nights and I keep cool with them. They feel crisp, cool and refreshing everytime I sleep in them, and I even sometimes was them in his shifty well water. I really couldn’t ask for better, maybe it’s my climate but they work for me.
Whenever I see discussions of bamboo, someone invariably calls it a tree. One of the Voices in My Head - a smug, persistently irritating, overly pedantic voice - keeps muttering: “Is not! Bamboo is a grass!”
And then the Literal Voice imagines replacing all of the fescue in the yard with bamboo, then wondering how hard it would be to mow. Or how long it would take for the neighbors (and Amazon delivery people) to complain if it wasn’t mowed. Or if I could hire some pandas …
Then I remember: "Oh, yeah - it’s about the fiber. (And does all of that fiber in their diet make pandas poop a lot, and does it make good fertilizer?) And which kind of fiber makes the best cloth? I dunno, because I don’t like any of them. They get too “clingy” in low humidity.
@rockblossom There is a stand of giant bamboo in Miami which has been there for more than 60 years. At one point in the 1960s, a couple of the local kids tried to cut a tunnel into it. They were able to make a hole by removing sections down close to the ground, but the stems remained solidly anchored in place by the interwoven branches. The individual stalks reach to a height of about 25 ft. There are varieties that get considerably taller than that. At the base, these were about 4 inches in diameter.
@yakkoTDI When I lived in Virginia many eons ago, one of my neighbors paid a lot for some mini-bamboo plants which he planned to grow in tubs on his porch. They were supposed to be easy to grow in containers with the roots confined where they would not spread. It took a few weeks for them to touch the porch ceiling. Then the roots broke through the bottom of the tub and invaded the ground. He had to dig out a part of the ground near the porch to kill the roots. My unhelpful comment: “Hmm. Looks like you were bamboozled.”
@rockblossom@yakkoTDI Mythbusters tested whether the bamboo torture supposedly used by the Japanese in WWII actually worked. The made a torso out of ballistic gel, then suspended it a few inches above the ground where they had planted a fast-growing bamboo plant. Sure enough, the bamboo grew up through the torso with no trouble. Kind of scary.
Well, that was quite interesting.
A bit of a long read, which kinda talked in circles too much…
It felt a bit like AI text, rather than being planned and written by a human. Plus the “About the author” section is a little suspicious:
(bold in original)
It starts by naming the author as a generic group of people, then uses the pronoun “he” followed by “Connect with Boris” — so is it a single, human CEO, or is it the support team? Or maybe it’s a one-man company, and Boris is the CEO and the support team? (or maybe there was a mutiny, and the CEO got downgraded to support team?)
Anyway, probably the more important part is the claims it makes about bamboo fabric being “very breathable” and high moisture-wicking abilities. Suspiciously at odds with what some Mehtizans have said here. (I haven’t knowingly experienced any form of bamboo fabric, so I have no opinion of my own yet.)
@xobzoo I have some bamboo running socks, I quite like them. Comfy, breathable, and they have handled water fairly well. I think wool is probably still better for moisture, but it’s not a massive gap. Certainly much better than cotton!
@xobzoo
This. 100% this.
This crap will be the death of the internet. It’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
I can only assume and hope our AI overlords will become better authors in the near future.
@stinks @xobzoo you want them to lie to you better? I like knowing they are making shit up this way
@stinks @xobzoo AI will put out of business all of those people who wrote the same bullshit SEO articles for clicks.
I get terrible night sweats and bamboo sleepwear makes it semi tolerable.
Bamboo, it’s what’s for dinner.
/giphy Panda eating bamboo shoots.
@phendrick
In a low-humidity environment, rayon breathes well. In Miami, not so much, in my recollection. Your experience may vary.
From the article:
So there’s low quality bamboo rayon to look out for…
@pakopako And so far, that’s what all of the “bamboo” sheets here have been.
I have some Bamboo sheets I got from meh in an irk a while ago and I think they’re great. I use them at my dads house which doesn’t have a/c and the humidity can get anywhere from 70-90% or above on summer nights and I keep cool with them. They feel crisp, cool and refreshing everytime I sleep in them, and I even sometimes was them in his shifty well water. I really couldn’t ask for better, maybe it’s my climate but they work for me.
@Star2236 maybe it’s the difference @pakopako has noted. The whole rayon is cool seems questionable but maybe it’s the material
Whenever I see discussions of bamboo, someone invariably calls it a tree. One of the Voices in My Head - a smug, persistently irritating, overly pedantic voice - keeps muttering: “Is not! Bamboo is a grass!”
And then the Literal Voice imagines replacing all of the fescue in the yard with bamboo, then wondering how hard it would be to mow. Or how long it would take for the neighbors (and Amazon delivery people) to complain if it wasn’t mowed. Or if I could hire some pandas …
Then I remember: "Oh, yeah - it’s about the fiber. (And does all of that fiber in their diet make pandas poop a lot, and does it make good fertilizer?) And which kind of fiber makes the best cloth? I dunno, because I don’t like any of them. They get too “clingy” in low humidity.
@rockblossom Some species of bamboo only get to be a few feet tall so just pick the right one.
Of course there are the fast growing varieties that allow you to watch the grass grow without taking too much time.
@rockblossom There is a stand of giant bamboo in Miami which has been there for more than 60 years. At one point in the 1960s, a couple of the local kids tried to cut a tunnel into it. They were able to make a hole by removing sections down close to the ground, but the stems remained solidly anchored in place by the interwoven branches. The individual stalks reach to a height of about 25 ft. There are varieties that get considerably taller than that. At the base, these were about 4 inches in diameter.
@yakkoTDI When I lived in Virginia many eons ago, one of my neighbors paid a lot for some mini-bamboo plants which he planned to grow in tubs on his porch. They were supposed to be easy to grow in containers with the roots confined where they would not spread. It took a few weeks for them to touch the porch ceiling. Then the roots broke through the bottom of the tub and invaded the ground. He had to dig out a part of the ground near the porch to kill the roots. My unhelpful comment: “Hmm. Looks like you were bamboozled.”
@yakkoTDI @rockblossom
@rockblossom @yakkoTDI
Looks like you’ve been forward thinking:
New “cottage industry”?
Bambooze
@phendrick @yakkoTDI People can make booze out of almost anything organic. Since I
thankfullyunfortunately can’t eat/drink anything made from barley, I will have to pass on stuff like this: https://lefthandbrewing.com/beers/peanut-butter-milk-stout@rockblossom @yakkoTDI Mythbusters tested whether the bamboo torture supposedly used by the Japanese in WWII actually worked. The made a torso out of ballistic gel, then suspended it a few inches above the ground where they had planted a fast-growing bamboo plant. Sure enough, the bamboo grew up through the torso with no trouble. Kind of scary.