Formas perfeitas e inspirações na natureza. É assim que encontramos muitos dos produtos que estão no mercado que se estendem do design ao conceito-idéia.
Harmony Art é um site voltado somente ao desenvolvimento de tecidos organicos que trazem a ideologia do organico e a junção da combinação de arte e sustentabilidade.
E eu, tentando entender um pouco mais da nova tecnologia dos tecidos fabricados com fibras de bambu, encontrei:
What about Bamboo?We love the feel of bamboo, however, due to the toxic processing to which bamboo is subject in the transition from plant to fiber, we have decided to hold off on that fiber for the time being. We hope that a better/cleaner process is discovered soon. If you hear about one please let us know. We would love to be using it if there were....until then we will be sticking to organic cotton. If you want to read a great blog on the debate, check out Victoria Everman's post: "How Green is Bamboo Fabric". If you want an in depth analysis visit Lotus Organics' Blog titled "Bamboo: Facts Behind the Fiber" or "Bamboo Sprouting Green Myths". Another great article on the bamboo debate is, "How Green Are Bamboo Clothes?". For those of you that are interested, here's an easy to understand explanation of the bamboo/fiber process as explained by eco-interior designer Kirsten Flynn: "...rayon and bamboo are very similar. Both are made by dissolving Cellulose, or plant fiber in a bunch of chemicals so it forms a material that can be extruded through spinarettes (think a long stream of very thin garlic coming out of a garlic press, or one of those old Play Doh squeezers that made the stuff that looked like Play Doh spaghetti.) The long fibers that have been formed in this way then are dipped in a bath to harden them, (in some processes this bath contains acetone) and then woven into threads that are in turn woven into fabric or cord. I still like bamboo fabric, it feels great, and bamboo is more rapidly renewable that trees, which is where conventional rayon gets it's cellulose. I just worry about the chemical useage, and whether the plants are careful to capture any chemical effluent to the air or water." UPDATE: On July 15th, the Federal Trade Commission held a workshop in DC titled "eco in the market: green building & textiles". There was a lot discussed but what I took away from the transcripts was a more concrete aversion to bamboo fabric. Basically there is no solid evidence for most of the anti-microbial claims and in fact technically all bamboo (chemically processed that is) is a rayon product and should be labeled as "rayon from bamboo". To call something 100% bamboo it must be mechanically processed and then it would have the feel of linen not the soft flowing stuff that everyone is touting as bamboo. So, beware of misleading and mislabeling bamboo claims.
Já no Brasil a marca Kailash, em parceria com a Santaconstancia, lançaram a linha Takê (bambu em japonês).
