What has been important in the recent return of hemp materials is that modern industrial spinning—previously carried out on the cotton system—has now been able to introduce the process of "carefully peeling the fibers," based on full-scale linen spinning.
This was once how we worked together in small communities. Crops were not only a source of food but also the raw materials for producing clothing and other everyday textile products.
Carefully peeling the fibers was hard labor. Extracting the fibers, processing them, spinning them into yarn, and weaving them into fabric could not be done by a small group alone, so it is easy to imagine that communities collaborated in these tasks.
We feel it is deeply meaningful that this hemp material, responding to the call of a new era that demands coexistence with the environment, is reviving with its ancient brilliance. We communicate this as New Age Hemp, a phrase that symbolizes the idea that "a new era is created and renewed by returning to time-honored methods and values."
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