Friday, January 21, 2011

Hemp Textiles

Hemp is the strongest and longest natural fiber. It's superior quality and ultimate strength makes it the best plant for textiles.

Hemp is so versatile, it can make numerous products like clothing, purses, backpacks, towels, sheets, diapers, rugs etc. You name it, hemp can make it. http://www.rawganique.com/

Hemp’s bast fibers (25 ft.) have 250% more fiber than cotton.
Hemp has a longer garment life than cotton. It can make the strongest rope
(Hemp was originally used to make rope, sails and tarps. http://hempstheticket.blogspot.com/2011/01/valuable-and-environmentally-friendly.html) to the finest lace and delicate enough to be woven together with silk. Hemp fibers block at least one half of sun’s UV rays, more than any other fabric. Cotton is whitened with chlorine bleach, hemp is whitened with hydrogen peroxide. Cotton requires heavy irrigation and is doused with more agricultural chemicals than any other commercial crop. Cotton has been engineered to handle the use of chemical pesticides and is nearly no longer a natural fiber.
Hemp requires no pesticides, less water and is one of the most sustainable crops on earth.

 
Most textiles are made from pesticide- ridden cotton and toxic, petrochemical fibers. Hemp can replace all toxic, synthetic products, toxic chemicals and cotton products.
The strongest, synthetic fiber, nylon was created by Dupont the chemist, who studied the hemp fibers to replicate his own and he created toxic chemicals.
http://hempstheticket.blogspot.com/2011/01/history-of-hemp-and-marijuana.html
 
Non-toxic, strongest, natural hemp fibers are the best.