Fiber from Corn?!

[SaelensFrozenFlame]

I kid you not...went to the Iowa State Fair yesterday, and stopped by the threads and fabrics area...a LOT of interesting projects, but the thing that caught my eye was a type of fiber known as Ingeo...which comes from corn.

http://www.fieldsoffiber.com has all the info about this fiber, along with a shop that you can buy products from. (the yarn, sadly, is pretty fricken expensive...$10.50 for one skein unless one gets the larger skein, which is $14)  

[~Viva~Per~Amore~]

Neat, but expensive.

I think I'll just use the cheap yarn for now until I become a milionare off crafting.  

[Tinuvial]

I heard a rumor that Southwest Trading Company was going to start carrying a line of inego yarn.

There are so many exciting fibers to choose from these days

Soysilk, Bamboo, Inego, Ceramic. . . even Kevlar. Before you know it we'll be knitting with glass that feels like cashmere!  

[Catcheen]

It's surprisingly soft  

[DecemberFlower]

Man, you can get fiber from just about anything these days. It's pretty crazy. surprised  

[knitting_needle_ninja]

Cotton requires a lot of pesticides, and is sucks nutrients right out of the land--you need a lot of acrage to grow it, because the field needs to rest for at least 2 years I think. I don't remember if that is the right time, but I know it's a lot longer than with other crops or livestock which only need 1-2 seasons to recover.

Hey, I did learn something in our middle school Civil War Unit. And I actually used it. xd  

[Silver Mist]

Is the corn fiber soft?

And I'm all for cotton still, as I'm allergic to wool and cotton is a good subsitute.  

[knitting_needle_ninja]

Same here. I know it's bad for the environment, but I'm also allergic to wool (thought blends and really fine merino don't bother me as much), but cotton and acrylic are super soft and more affordable than fibers like baby alpaca and other fancier "green" yarns, as well as more readily available.  

[augusteir]

alot of yarn companys are making corn yarn, its amazing it feels like silk but is just well corn