Plant fiber pile fabric textile

A pile-fabric textile comprising:

• a) abase;
• b) a plurality of plant-derived processed pile fibers, wherein the plurality of plant-derived pile fibers have been processed via a retting process and then treated with heat and pressure in the presence of an impregnation material to introduce the impregnation material into at least one microscopic crevasse in each of the pile fibers;
• and,
• c) wherein a first end of each of the pile fibers is secured to the base.

A method of making a plant-fiber based pile-fabric textile comprising:

• a) performing a raw material fiber preparation process on a plant material fiber to form a raw material fiber, wherein performing a raw material fiber preparation process further comprises:
• i. performing a dew retting process on the plant material fiber;
• ii. performing a mercerization process comprising treating the plant material fiber with sodium hydroxide;
• and
• iii. performing an impregnation process comprising treating the plant material fiber with pressure and heat in the presence of an impregnation liquid to introduce an impregnation material into at least one microscopic crevasse in the plant material fiber;
• b) performing a pre-finishing process on the raw material fiber to form a pre-finished material;
• c) performing a knitting process on the pre-finished material to form a knitted material;
• d) performing a finishing process on the knitted material to form a finished material;
• and,
• e) performing a post-finishing process on the finished material to form the plant-fiber based pile-fabric textile.