Fabric info:
Hemp Properties:
~Hemp wears 2-3x longer than any fiber, softens as you wear, and is more breathable than cotton.
~Hemp fiber has a porous nature allowing it to breath. Therefore it keeps you cool in the summer, and in the winter it traps air into the fiber keeping you warm.
~Hemp is known as the strongest fiber; over twice as strong as cotton.
~Hemp seeds are an excellent nutritional source.
~Hemp can be a natural resource for building materials, papermaking, and biodegradable plastics.
~Using the same amount of land, hemp produces 250% more fiber than cotton and 600% more fiber than flax.
~Hemp grows exceedingly well without pesticides or chemicals, actually enriching the soil and helping it to retain moisture.
Soy Properties:
~Soy was cultivated in China before 3000 B.C.E. and was classified as one of the five sacred crops.
~Soy fabric is an environmentally friendly fiber made from tofu manufacturing waste. Soy protein is liquefied and then extruded into long, continuous fibers that are then cut and processed like any other spinning fiber. It’s incredibly soft and feels similar to cashmere.
~Soy fabric is absorbent, warm, resistant to bacteria and UV rays and when discarded is biodegradable, unlike many fabrics.
Tencel Properties:
~Tencel, made from wood pulp cellulose, offers a unique combination of the most desirable properties of man made and natural fibers: soft as silk, strong as polyester, cool as linen, warm as wool and as absorbent as cotton. Quite simply a “break-through” fiber.
Wear and Care:
~Hemp fabric has the nature of denim, it tightens as you wash, loosens as you wear. I do recommend machine wash cold and tumble dry low for all my materials with hemp in them, except for the Hemp/Silk, I recommend hand wash, and hang dry.
~Tencel/Hemp blends can be put in the washer on cold to allow for no shrinkage, and either hang dry or tumble dry low in the dryer.
~For the Soy fibered fabric, I suggest machine wash cold/hand wash, and to hang dry the clothing. The dryer will make the fabric shrink a little bit, and make it feel stiff and staticky.