We’ve done it. The process has taken every bit of tensile strength OTP could muster. But the day has come. It’s official. OneTruePants are dead. Long live OneTruePants. At midnight tonight it will have been 365 days that the same pair of hemp pants have adorned my blessed lower half. (Heroic music begins as OTP [...]
The wholesale business for hemp in the United States is a small field. Currently it host about five players: Eco Vigor, EnviroTextiles, Hemp Basics, Hemp Traders, and Pickering International. Two of the leading retail clothiers also make their European hemp fabrics available: Rawganique and Ecolution. There simply isn’t much hemp fabric being made worldwide and [...]
Finally the otp proto2 has arrived! And they are spanking hot. The new fabric has a much tighter weave and better drape. It is stiff for sure. I am anticipating the pants finding a comfortable wear level after the first 5 or 6 washes. A few small changes were made in the pattern as well. [...]
When it comes to using hemp for textiles the plant’s bast fibers are somewhat a treasure waiting to be unlocked. The potential length, up to several feet, and strength of the fibers is what makes them so attractive for commercial use in clothing and accessories of all sorts. The stalk of the hemp plant consists [...]
Hemp Pants Finally Found, Loved
In my last blog I chided hippies and granolas for not having...
Unearthing the Hemp Textile Underground
The quest continues. Yes, I am wearing my hemp pants as I...
Lynn and Judy Osburn, where are you?
If, like me, you have perused the source material available on-line in...
