Hemp Marijuana Facts

The process for making Hemp into cloth

The hurd and the bast are the two parts that make up the hemp stalk. The bast is considered to be the fibrous portion of a hemp plant, and it is able to be woven into cloth of many different varieties. This cloth has such a strong durability that Levi’s were originally made from hemp. Out of all of the different natural fibers on the market, the hemp plant’s fibers are often more suitable to many different applications. If you are trying to harvest hemp plants for fiber, here is how you do it. First the hemp plants must be grown closely together and matured to the point of losing the leaves. You then cut the hemp plants down, leaving them in the field to get a few good washings from rainfall. After a few bouts with rain, the hemp plants are turned over allowing both sides to get the same treatment. This process also allows the hurd, or cor’s pulp, to soften and return a good portion of the minerals to the ground. Growers call this “retting”, and this is considered the final step before separating the hurd from the bast. Thankfully this final step no longer needs to be done by hand as machines are able to do this now.