Hemp is the Arabic word for canvas and its major use in our early history was in the making of canvas and rope. The canvas tops on the covered wagons going west were made from hemp. The rigging ...

Forming starts with banks of yarn that are run through a die and twisted and compressed into one strand ... quarter of a mile long, long enough to make 220 meter lengths of rope.

Low maintenance One of the main benefits of synthetic hemp is convenience. Unlike natural fibre ropes, it’s mould and mildew-resistant, and can be left in situ for a long time – requiring very little ...

Hemp has been cultivated for thousands of years for use in a wide range of products from clothes and shoes to ropes and paper ... prohibition and the apparent long-standing inability of Congress ...

(AP) — Chopping cherry trees is not the only horticultural myth surrounding our most famous Founding Father — slacker culture has long reveled ... grow industrial hemp on his Mount Vernon ...

(Ivan Petrov/Hobnails and Hemp Rope) Nearly 100 years ago, a young couple set out in search of what was known only as Mystery Mountain, and this summer a team of explorers will recreate their journey.