Strandwoven Colors is a new line of Strandwoven Bamboo that is designed to imitate more exotic woods and looks than regular bamboo alone. It is dye-infused prior to compression allowing for unique and varying grain patterns that are not stained on, but consistent throughout the board. This allows for the color and grain pattern to remain intact through as many sanding and refinishing cycles as desired. The material is still our classic Strandwoven Bamboo (two and a half times as hard as oak and exponentially more stable) as well as our Aluminum Oxide-free finish, but it is a unique and quite striking way to get exotic wood looks without sacrificing those exotic trees, many of which are fairly rare. Ebony Sandalwood, Thai Teak, and Wenge are the three we have out so far and a new one, Sapele, has just recently emerged from our research and development process. An engineered format is in the testing stages and we look forward to nearly endless possibilities for styles and designs in the years to come. Come check in out in the Bamboo-Flooring section of our website!
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What is Strandwoven?
Jul 26
We get asked a fair amount of questions here at Sustainable Flooring but one of the most common, and one that pertains specifically to us, is what does the term Strandwoven™ mean? Strandwoven™ is the term for our unique compression and densification process. It can be applied to a number of different raw materials but all these raw materials are taken in their fibrous forms and put under intense heat and pressure with a little bit of low-VOC resin (about 3% by weight) to form a solid beam of material. Planks are then milled off of these compressed beams and the grain pattern ends up depending on the specific recipe of how one lays the fibers into the mold before compression. The Strandwoven™ process dramatically increases the raw material’s hardness and stability (the amount of expansion or contraction one can expect relative to changes in humidity) and allows for exotic looks that can be found nowhere else. Overall quality and durability are the major benefits of the Strandwoven™ process and we are proud to offer it in our flagship product line, our Strandwoven™ Woods and Bamboo.