Benefits of Hemp Clothing


 
Thanks to fashion designers like Korto Momolu, hemp clothing is having a long-overdue revival. The project runway star showcased her latest line at New York Fashion Week in September this year with hemp clothing taking centre stage.
Korto is following in the footsteps of legendary American clothing company Levi Strauss who released a new line of hemp jeans in March of this year.
It is documented that hemp fibres once provided over 80% of the worlds textile needs but in the early 20th century a switch was made to cheap synthetic fibres and cost-effective cotton which has heavily influenced the environmental crisis before us.
 
Full Article:
https://www.candidmagazine.com/benefits-of-hemp-clothing/

Cannabis: a remedy for the soil?

Julian Vigo

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Unlike cotton and many other plants used in textile, hemp needs less water and requires no pesticides, allows for soil remediation (phytoremediation) – whereby hemp can absorb pollutants from the earth – and it returns 60-70 percent of the nutrients it takes from the soil.
 
Full Article:
https://theecologist.org/2019/oct/10/cannabis-remedy-soil?fbclid=IwAR3JK6zAMrrKuVoqCxE5EiVDvv4r2_GSifelrpqiMzVz30JJyHkXstV1B0Q