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Natural Collection stocks some of the Ecolution range - footwear, ski pants, shorts, as well as string cord & vests. Some Ecolution stock is also sold by Ethical Wares on the vegan page.
The Hemp Store UK based clothes retailer with 4% of profits to Nepali education. Sell goods from Arrogence Accessories / Pure Sativa, Hemp Valley & Nepal in Cambridge Market.
The Hemp Trading Company: clothes influenced by dance culture. Plain and printed T-shirts, tops and more
4everweed.com fashion design company primed in reggae dance culture: "a new way in hemp wear"
Braintree Hemp Clothing import mainly chinese hemp in a widening range of styles
Pure Sativa a London wholesaler, designer and importer of bags that uses a tough cotton/hemp mix sewn together in China.
The Natural Store distinctive dresses and products made from killing silk worms. Dresses from Enamore.co.uk
Hemp Union relatively long-established trader in Hull with a range of prices on T-shirts and other products. The web site throws-together some articals on hemp cultivation machines as well as what you'd expect of a clothes shop.
House of Hemp sells fabric by the meter (as does the Clothhouse.com, Berwick St Market, London), weekend workshops in weaving, + B&B. Cornwall.
Hemcore for horses: established UK grower of raw un-twisted fibre, usually used for lining stables. Customers include Buckingham Palace.
The Hemp Shop, Brighton. Bags, hammocks, oils and interesting fabrics my the meter. Close to a vegan shoe shop.
Loop Fabrics, Totnes: cloth supplier, wholesale and retail: loopfabric at yahoo com
Happy Nappy Days & Hempfabric.co.uk: describe themselves as a "high quality hemp fabric business, based here in the UK. Online shopping with UK VAT included. Wholesale avaliable.". Supply an interesting range of hemp cloth. The nappy business sells wholesale and online, and can make a range of low-impact nappies.
Clothworks.co.uk, Bradford on Avon mail-order company selling their own designs of skirts and childrens' clothes in hemp or organic cotton
Spellwear.com three year project ending 2006 to make bewitching clothes out of hemp cotton mix. Mail order service based in Brighton.
Motherhemp oil and seed brand bought from the Gage family - the people who gave their name to Greengages & run a National Trust estate - by a company called Springdale-Group.com Springdale are quoted in Farmer's Weekly: (14.04.2005)
"Growing demand for hemp-based products has prompted the Springdale Group to call for more growers to come forward this spring. Despite it being an old plant, hemp has a real future and real potential, said the firm‘s chairman, Clifford Spencer. Because of the plant‘s similarities to the narcotic drug, Cannabis (although it cannot be used for that purpose), the United States‘ Drug Enforcement Agency bans American farmers from growing it, giving UK growers further opportunities, he said. The company said it is looking for at least 10,000ha of hemp to be grown this year and is offering fixed price contracts of £350/tonne for seed and upwards of £70/t for straw. "We have excellent markets for the seed and the plant," added Mr Spencer. Seeds are crushed for food and neutraceutical uses, while the fibre is used for textiles or fibre-glass and the husks for animal feed, he said. With a typical output of £630/ha and growing costs around £176/ha - the gross margin of £464/ha (excluding subsidy) compares favourably to other crops"
Hemp Collective - now re collected in different forms
JP Parkinson Textiles t/a Evergreen - ahead of its time; closed
while the market for hemp cloth / recycled fibre mixes develops.
They hemp for Veganline.com's prototype hemp boot.
If you are wondering whether to look away, be warned that most hemp products are similar to nylon ones but double the price, that most people can only get them on the web or at festival gift-stalls, and that the products available on these stalls are often just hats, bags, wallets, and the odd meusli bar. The dreamy good intention that went with buying hemp meusli may seem to have had a small impact when you return to real economy of flats, jobs, cars and computers.
Oddly enough, Henry Ford did make a hemp body for some of his cars before the last war, and seemed pleased with it at the time. Now, some of the customers to the small emerging hemp industry are the people who make padded bits to cover the door panel or muffle the engine. One of the reasons why hemp is no longer used for rope-making, hardboard production, matting and macho canvas is that it was illegal grow it in most western states: farmers need to apply for a license, and it was only with heavy legal pressure that the first group for fifty years managed to extract one from the home office quite recently. where you would expect ministers to be making encouraging noises, offering export advice or EC grants, the opposite is the case.