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#1 2006-06-13 10:33:23
Bamboo clothing
This site claims "bamboo fiber is softer than the softest cotton". Yeah, tell that to my hacksaw and tung oil...
http://www.shirtsofbamboo.com/
Anyone worn a bamboo shirt before?
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#2 2006-06-13 11:26:44
- rpowers
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Re: Bamboo clothing
dstone wrote:
Anyone worn a bamboo shirt before?
-Darren.
It appears that the privilege is only available to those who wear a Small or an Extra Extra Large.
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#3 2006-06-13 12:10:04
Re: Bamboo clothing
dstone wrote:
This site claims "bamboo fiber is softer than the softest cotton". Yeah, tell that to my hacksaw and tung oil...
http://www.shirtsofbamboo.com/
Anyone worn a bamboo shirt before?
-Darren.
I have one on now..from Bamboo Giant in Aptos California. Soft and comfortable!
Ken
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#4 2006-06-13 17:44:23
- edosan
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Re: Bamboo clothing
Bamboo Giant looks like it might be a decent source of non-rootend culms for making long shakuhachi...
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#5 2006-10-05 14:46:56
Re: Bamboo clothing
Dublin recently hosted the Ryder Cup golf tournament (sorry USA nyuk, nyuk, nyuk...)
The players were presented with green blazers that were made from bamboo fibre. They cost 600 euro a pop!
Maybe you flutemakers should be saving up your off-cuts.
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#6 2006-11-15 10:07:48
- PSTL
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Re: Bamboo clothing
My wife and I recently discovered bath towels made in Turkey, from 60% cotton and 40% bamboo. It's the best towel I have ever used. The towels soak up the water like no other towel on the market.
The bamboo is thirsty stuff! 
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#7 2007-01-22 21:14:55
- Alice
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Re: Bamboo clothing
I live in St. Petersburg (location of Shirts of Bamboo store) and walk by their booth at our farmer's market every Saturday. Super soft stuff, though not the cheapest. And they are very nice people.
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#9 2008-08-29 04:28:52
- Ammantex
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Re: Bamboo clothing
Clothes made from bamboo are very soft. Specially bamboo towels are very soft and anti-bacterial.
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#10 2008-08-29 09:18:20
- Priapus Le Zen M☮nk
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Re: Bamboo clothing
2 years ago i got a batch of T-Shirts made from bamboo fiber and was very skpetical abotu the hype but hey 2 years after they still look very good and are much softer than cotton.
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#12 2009-10-14 13:29:58
Re: Bamboo clothing
I have a friend in Japan, one of Yokoyama's students named Ito-san, from Shimizu in Shizuoka Prefecture, who has a company that makes material out of Kudzu, that crazy vine that chokes out all vegetation. I've seen a lot of it in southern USA. I don't know if he's making clothes now but he was making wallpaper with bamboo motifs. It was very thick and course with the vines running through. He also was making zabuton covers, pillowcases and condoms. I don't have his contact info but maybe one of the Chikushinkai people could get some info from Yokoyama sensei about him?
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#13 2009-10-14 15:50:32
- edosan
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Re: Bamboo clothing
chikuzen wrote:
He also was making zabuton covers, pillowcases and condoms.
Now wait just a minute: plant fiber condoms?
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#14 2009-10-14 16:06:06
Re: Bamboo clothing
I'd love to put this add up on net dating:
Female living in a hose with bamboo flooring, play shakuhachi and use only bamboo condoms seek another bamboophile! 
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#16 2009-10-14 20:00:35
- Tairaku 太楽
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Re: Bamboo clothing
edosan wrote:
chikuzen wrote:
He also was making zabuton covers, pillowcases and condoms.
Now wait just a minute: plant fiber condoms?
Now, get with the program. There's this little doohickey called "Google". It is good for searching terms so you don't have to waste the time of the other forum members with these irrelevant questions!
http://www.google.com/search?client=saf … p;oe=UTF-8
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#17 2009-10-15 02:12:32
- edosan
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Re: Bamboo clothing
Tairaku wrote:
Now, get with the program. There's this little doohickey called "Google". It is good for searching terms so you don't have to waste the time of the other forum members with these irrelevant questions!
http://www.google.com/search?client=saf … p;oe=UTF-8
Erm...just because you have 'condom' side-by-side with 'fiber' in the search window doesn't mean that they are at all related in the result, your Knobulus.
Did see a reference to plant fibers having been employed in 'early (ie, obsolete) condoms', however. Like, before sheep existed....
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It takes effort to attain nothingness.
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