Bamboo can also make viscose, often manufactured from the wood pulp of trees, including beech, pine, and eucalyptus. Due to the several chemicals used in the viscose process, including sodium hydroxide and carbon disulfide, viscose is considered semi-synthetic.

Five steps make up the production process for viscose:

1. To create a brown wood pulp solution, the plant is chopped into wood pulp and mixed with chemicals like sodium hydroxide.
2. This brown wood pulp is cleansed, bleached, and dried.
3. To produce the fibers, the pulp is first treated with carbon disulfide before being dissolved in sodium hydroxide to make the “viscose” solution.
4. The viscose solution is pushed through a spinneret, a device that produces regenerated cellulose filaments.
5. After being spun into yarn, this regenerated cellulose is used to weave or knit fabrics made of viscose rayon.