Thank you Francis for explaining all this to the Arachne list. Essentially the B&F bamboo/silk is real bamboo bast fibres but nearly all the other bamboo threads around are regenerated cellulose fibres.
Milk thread is a bit gimmicky but has a use in medicine for heart valves and skin grafts as it is very strong. It is essentially a form of cheese and as such is very attractive to all sorts of bugs and critters. Maybe the junk food 'Cheese Strings' is really milk fibre! Brenda On 27 Jan 2010, at 20:05, Francis Busschaert wrote: > hallo to all > i had an email from several of you conserning the bamboo > > i have multiple reaction > > > a few remarks > ùmost what you will find id the stuff all of you are talking of > so in this regards the bamboo you have to list as regenereated celulose from > bamboo origine > > BUT BUT BUT be aware ladys and some men!!!!!!!! > the real bambooyarn made from real bamboo fibres does exist aswell > we have always offered this ones > there are only 2 manufactures whom produce real bamboo like linnne proces > one in france and one in japan > i take threads but mostly sliver (the fibres already made in prespinning > state) from both of them > their production is very small > for giving you an idea of exclusivity, they also make threads from Wisteria > Sinensis we call them in belgium and holland bleu rain > so they are realy specilised in special bast fibres > the one in france is the one whom made our special ananas/pinaple thread > they are small in producion > it is easyly concluded that all the rest is celuluse > the rerason is simple > the proces itself is very very time consuming and also expensive > from the original plant you have vertialy nothing left > they often call it sifting a needle in a heystack > that is the reason that this quality it is normaly used in the highend > fashinon > that is the reasion we need to ask 6.5€ for one of those small spools > and we have a very small margin of profit on this artickle > > personaly i do not have any proble that it is mentioned as manmade > because of the problems explaining it that you also have the real genuan > thingh > i suppose it is clear enough on our website that you have others non real > products > the bigest problem is that it is not so easy to see the difference > the bamboo brakes down to extremly fine fibres > you can in that matter compare it whit high quality sisal > most know sisal as a very thick material > you can not be more wrong > that is for the bamboo > i can tell much more but i beleeve i made myself again more then aple > rudicule in English or whatever it is i type.... > > > > concerning the MILK: > > milk proteine is actualy chees/chedar kind of procedee that is then made in > thread > i strongly desugest you putting it in the list > it is a experimental proteine fibre > it is instable and non of the biger producers like bayer dupont etc are until > now able to compensit the dificulties > it is very very strong as fibre but it is realy fast attact by > beast/coucarages and smaal bugs > they see it as a supreme supper > plus the biggest disadvantage is that it does nasty smells in contact whit > water humidity > it begins after a wile to smell like one of those frensh cheeses which came > to live agian > ...... > so i strongy dought that it still is available on the market > beacause it is reacherced in the early 80 when we had in europe the big > butter and milk surplus > only dupont makes it for a medical utility > there it is used as a kind of vales for harts ...... i do not know how it > works but ... > it is the only use > i do not want to be the BAD one but it is a cheneese > enterprise.................... > they often pretend to have invented this or that > and are cracks in reinventing boiled water > or to envent the moon > > now that i am thinink about it > teir is a very good study and whit result in real thread of goats > injected so they make milk containing the same as spidermilk proteines > it is then made into yarn > but again this aplication is done for medical results > so here it doesd not matter that it smells like and old swine ready to drop > dead of its own smell > again i know it is made into little hartvalves and aslo into some other kind > of membrane > for plastic surgery i beleve it is used as grafts or bases for grafts of > tissue to grom cells into in forms etcetc > this is very great and intresting but already tooooo way of my own > topic....... > > > francis > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected] Brenda in Allhallows [email protected] http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected].
