{"id":418,"date":"2014-10-12T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/12\/mystery-fiber-2\/"},"modified":"2014-10-12T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T20:03:00","slug":"mystery-fiber-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/mystery-fiber-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Fiber"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div>\nMystery Fiber?<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nI received an advertisement from a catalog featuring towels<br \/>\nmade from bamboo-rayon and cotton fibers.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe person sending me the ad was confused about the so-called<br \/>\nbamboo-rayon and questioned how bamboo plant fibers could be used to create<br \/>\nsynthetics.&nbsp; Well,&nbsp; the answer to that query is a simple<br \/>\none.&nbsp; Rayon is not a synthetic fiber,<br \/>\nalthough many assume that it is.&nbsp; Like<br \/>\nits cousin Acetate, Rayon is manufactured from cellulose.&nbsp; So allow me to tell you a short history of<br \/>\nRayon.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nRayon, known as&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cartificial silk\u201d, was first produce over 120 years ago, the first<br \/>\npatent was granted to a Swiss chemist who dissolved the inner bark of mulberry<br \/>\ntrees, chemically modifying it and formed threads by dipping needles into the<br \/>\nsolution.&nbsp; The first commercial<br \/>\nproduction of rayon is credited to Count Hilaire Chardonnet, a French chemist<br \/>\nwho demonstrated&nbsp; his fabrics at the<br \/>\nParis Exhibition.&nbsp; The first commercial<br \/>\nplant to produce rayon was built 2 years later.&nbsp; Chardonnet discovered that nitrocellulose could be dissolved in a<br \/>\nmixture of ether and alcohol and the solutions could then be extruded into an<br \/>\nacid bath to form a continuous filament. Rayon is a regenerated textile fiber,<br \/>\nthere is no chemical change in the cellulose and has the same characteristics as<br \/>\ncellulose.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n&nbsp;In the US the first<br \/>\nsuccessful production of Rayon was made by the American Vicose Company in 1910.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nSince cotton linters and wood chips of pine, spruce and<br \/>\nhemlock have been the source of the cellulose used for Rayon, it is not<br \/>\nsurprising that fibers of bamboo would produce a profitable ( and sustainable)<br \/>\nsource of cellulose for Rayon, as well.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nRayon is highly absorbent, soft and comfortable with good<br \/>\ndrapability.&nbsp; It is also easy to<br \/>\ndye.&nbsp; Rayon is often used with other<br \/>\nfibers, such as cotton, in textile production.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nAcetate, Rayon\u2019s cousin is also a regenerated fiber, first<br \/>\nprocessed in 1894.&nbsp; Acetate, however, is<br \/>\na different chemical compound from the original cellulose.&nbsp; It is created by adding acetic acid to the<br \/>\ncellulose, creating cellulose acetate. The solution is forced through a<br \/>\nspinneret into warm air which hardens the filaments by evaporation.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\nIn case you were wondering, Nylon was the first synthetic<br \/>\ntextile fiber, produced by the laboratories of DuPont in 1931.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mystery Fiber? I received an advertisement from a catalog featuring towels made from bamboo-rayon and cotton fibers.&nbsp; The person sending me the ad was confused about the so-called bamboo-rayon and questioned how bamboo plant fibers could be used to create synthetics.&nbsp; Well,&nbsp; the answer to that query is a simple one.&nbsp; Rayon is not a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}