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Hemp Top – Frog
$10.00 – $40.86
100% Hemp fibre.
An oddly pleasing soft pastel tone that’s sort of mint green with a bit of turquoise. We’ve never seen a frog this colour, have you?
PRODUCT of ITALY
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This is beautiful stuff, the finest hemp we have ever seen and a local lady with a lot of experience spinning hemp tried it and agrees!
Very clean combed top, in a natural tan colour. Staple length is 6 to 7 inches. Hemp is a bast (stem) fibre from a very tall plant, essentially a strain of marijuana developed for fibre instead of other uses. Spun in a manner much like flax, the two also share the attribute of being harsh at first and just getting better and better over time with wear and laundering. It can be spun all by itself or blended with wool and other fibres. This has a light characteristic hemp scent but it's not overwhelming and should not be offensive to the nose during spinning.
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PRODUCT of CHINA