The fibers may be chemically modified, like in viscose (used to make rayon and cellophane).
Even with this, bamboo fabric can cause environmental harm in production due to the chemicals used to create a soft viscose from hard bamboo.
Recommended care for regular viscose rayon is dry-cleaning only.
Double-width organzas in viscose and acetate are used as sheer curtains.
They named the fiber viscose, because the reaction product of carbon disulfide and cellulose in basic conditions gave a highly viscous solution of xanthate.
Grasim is the world's second largest producer of viscose rayon fiber with about 21% market share.
The position has been made more difficult by the fact that viscose rayon filament is now only one of many types of man-made fibres manufactured in this country.
Further down the line there was the hazard of viscose, which is the spinning liquid, again with a strong caustic content, being spilled on the floor.
