Hemp Fiber facts

While investigating facts about Hemp Fiber Processing and Hemp Fiber Processing Equipment, I found out little known, but curios details like:

Ford once created a vehicle made out of plant materials. "Ford's 1941 biological car — made of soybean, wheat, hemp, flax and ramie fibers in a soy-based phenolic resin — weighed 1,000 pounds less than a steel car"

how hemp fiber is made?

The word “canvas” is derived from the word “cannabis” because canvas used to be made from hemp fiber.

What is hemp fiber used for?

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what can hemp fiber be used for. Here are 11 of the best facts about Hemp Fiber Uses and Hemp Fiber Properties I managed to collect.

what is hemp fiber?

1. Hemp fiber bags (a cannabis variant) is a cheap, clean, strong, light and time-tested material that can replace plastic bags.

2. William Randolph Hearst used his influence to help push marijuana tax act 1937 to squash the hemp industry to protect his paper making business. Basically halting use of hemp one of the worlds strongest natural fibers just for his personal profit.

3. Hemp was basic source of fibers for the manufacture of ropes, ships" sails, clothes, and canvas until invention of the synthetic fiber (nylon) in the 1937.

4. The Taiwanese were decorating pottery with hemp fibers as far back as 10,000 years ago.

5. Hemp is rich source of omega-3, 6 and 9 fatty acids, proteins, vitamins C and vitamins of the B group and dietary fibers.

6. Fresh and dried stems of kudzu can be used for weaving of baskets and for the manufacture of lamp shades and various sculptures. Fibers extracted from the stem, known as ko-hemp, are used for the manufacture of paper and cloth.

7. Fibers isolated from the stem of butterfly weed were used in the manufacture of ropes, cordage and cloth in the past. These fibers were often mixed with fibers isolated from the hemp to ensure longevity of produced items.

8. Manila folders are named after Manila hemp, a fiber from a banana plant which is native to the Philippines (Capital: Manila).

9. 1.) cannabinoids such as THC and CBD protect hemp and marijuana plants from UV rays much like sunscreen protects human skin from UV rays and 2.) the sails that carried European colonizers across the world are made from the hemp fiber.