Hemp - not just good for making blue jeans!

Hempro Int. offers two main hemp textile brands: Braintree Hemp (Australia) and the Hemp Line (Germany). Both brands prove excellent quality and provide highest wearing comfort. Braintree Hemp offers especially trendy and price-concious fashion for the younger generation. The Hemp Line places emphasis on mature basics with a likewise fashionable direction manufactured from ecological materials (e.g. cotton out of biological cultivation, hemp out of bio. cult.)

Additional to both brands, and at corresponding quantities, Hempro Int. offers the possibility of you producing textiles under your own brand. This is possible according to your own wishes and patterns or based on already existing models from our collection.

Hemp is ecologically and cultivated from naturally and organically. The plants are resistant to pests and illnesses so that no pesticides are necessary. Appart from that, hemp grows so quickly that there is no need for herbicides against weeds. Overall, that provides assurance that hemp textils not only look good, but are also naturally pure in every way.

The immigrant tailor from Bavaria Levi Strauss rivited the first jeans together as working trousers for goldseekers in the middle of the previous century, naturally using 100% hemp fabric.

No other cloth would have stood up to constant wetness and corosion involved – not only in it’s being tearproof but also in it`s wet strength, hemp is the natural fibre number 1. Up to the middle of the previous century, hemp, next to flachs, was the world`s most fequently used textile fibre. It wasn’t only coarse ropes or sacks that were made of hemp. In spite of it’s very high sturdiness, hemp can be processed into soft, shiny thread, that can be further processed into fine, skin-friendly cloth. Additionally, because of tiny air-pockets enclosed, the hemp fibre similar to silk can regulate temperature equalisation, it is cool in sommer and warm in winter.

Especially in sommer, natural fibres distinguished themselves not only in their ability to absorb perpiration, but they also provide protection from the sun. Hemp clothes absorb up to 95% of the UV radiation. In comparison, other fabrics ward off only 30-90 % UV from reaching the skin. Despite this excellent protection, and, especially in regards to sensitive skin, one should not neglect using sun creams containing sufficient sun protection factor.