Hemp Clothing

With today’s trends towards organic and healthy lifestyles many people are changing their purchasing choices to more organic items. At most times this is prominently seen in dietary changes, we also see this phenomenon in other aspects of people’s lives as well. One of these aspects is clothing and a new trend we see today is the rise in the use of hemp clothing.

Hemp clothing is made from Hemp fibre which is taken from the plants of the Cannabis family.  Although hemp clothing is called a recent trend, hemp clothing has a very far reaching history. Hemp clothing was known to be used as far back as the Chinese in the 28th century B.C. Hemp clothing was the major part of wearable products until the 1920’s. Till that time hemp clothing made up nearly  80% of the clothing market. Hemp clothing has a very large range and includes jeans, shirts, dresses, hats, bags and many more.

Hemp can be easily grown in most fields alongside other crops and it requires almost no herbicides or pesticides. The Chinese are currently the worlds largest producer of hemp clothing. The Chinese hemp[ clothing makers use a chemical process to create the fabric used in hemp clothing while their contemporaries on the European Continent use cleaner biological enzyme technology to produce similar fabrics for hemp clothing. The typical hemp fabric used for hemp clothing is not as white as cotton. It does not have the same softness as the cotton fabrics do either. To manage this hemp clothing manufacturers used a blend of cotton and hemp for hemp clothing. But now Canadian hemp clothing manufacturers have created a process to make hemp fabrics into a soft and white product known as Crailar which is much more similar to cotton and will be used in hemp clothing very soon.

Hemp clothing has many advantages over conventional clothing products. Hemp clothing is much stronger. It has around three times the strength of similar cotton products. Hemp clothing is also more lightweight and absorbent.  Hemp clothing is also ideal for outdoor wear because of its resistance to ultraviolet radiation and mold. And as mentioned before hemp clothing can be made of a blend of virtually any material and hemp. Since hemp clothing is organic it is also healthy for the environment and for you too. This makes hemp clothing some of the most versatile clothing ever seen.