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It is ridiculous, on my opinion, to be demonetized just for a single word use, even if it is use in a decent context. This witch hunt is doing no good to anyone.
There is a scammer in your comments section pretending to be you so people will direct message them because they have been told that they have qualified for a prize. If you look under my comment then you will probably see one.
I'm an electrician and I wear a Patagonia work jacket made out of hemp, on top of the environmental benefits it's also ridiculously durable. This jacket has outlasted at least 4 pairs of Carhartt pants and I'm crawling around all sorts of attics and crawlspaces so it gets worked.
Work on a farm 12 hours a day in the field or shop. Patagonias hemp blend fabric is a true innovation. Durable and tough but breathable and broken in on day 1. the fact it’s good for the environment only makes me love it more.
I've had a Patagonia short sleeves shirt, in the 90s, that was 100% hemp... and a little harsh on the skin because textile was quite thick and not so supple; but it was so strong. Several years later, a new one in cotton-hemp blend was much pleasant to wear, but slightly less resistant.
@@FutureProofTV so the addition of Hemp it just a clever move for introducing a new material and getting more variety of textile for the future market where long lasting product now was picked up pace for a new trend as it should because the ever rotating trend.
@@raifikarj6698 It's not just that hemp is longer lasting, it's that it also requires FAR less water to grow. This could be a revolution in countries such as Australia, which produces cotton but is the driest inhabited continent on earth. I'm not sure how to ready the rest of your sentence, if you could rephrase, I'd be happy to address those points too. I believe you're commenting on the long-lasting nature of hemp, but that it's less durable when blended with other materials, this is based on the use case. For work wear, they can use a higher percentage of hemp for increased durability, but in everyday wear, consumers prefer softer and more comfortable clothing, so they can reduce the hemp blend accordingly. Either way it still requires less water, less pesticides and is more durable than standard cotton
I'm in the custom packaging business, and we've experimented with hemp materials for reusable bags, to great results! It's nice to know that materials and where they are sourced is important with the biggest of businesses. Kudos to 100k, loving the content that's being pumped out!
Hey I love this, please can you cite any articles or whatever I could read to learn about this? As in using hemp for packaging, the pros and cons and barriers, thanks
Wrote a business plan for a hemp decordication facility for my MBA. A decordication facility is where you separate the fibers for bast and stalk of the plant for industrial uses is clothing, filters etc. I learned Soo much, hemp is a the true king of plants.
I am a docent with The Traveling Hemp Museum. This was music to my ears. We educate about the past, present and future of hemp. This is both present and future. A good bit of the past to have included was that Levi Jean's were born from recycled hemp sails in San Francisco. They made the most durable pants for the miners crawling through rocky tunnels. The brass rivets were to hold the pockets together when filled with gold. Hemp clothing also helps prevent skin fungus, which is one of many reasons it is the primary ingredient for many military uniforms. Socks in particular.
The Patagonia 55% hemp, 18% organic , and 27% recycled polyester clothes are wonderful. I have two of their Ferrier shirts and their unlined work chore coat , and they are bulletproof. They are also very soft and comfortable. A hemp fan for life.
Hemp used to be in common use in pre-occupation Japan, but with the US occupation came very strict rules against it for political and financial reasons. But historically, there is a strong tradition of using it for fabric and other uses. I hope this knowledge can once again be put to use.
Flax linen has been used forever in more high end garments particularly. Usually sold for summer wear. It is a great fabric for hot weather--all but the most humid--like jungle humid. (The higher the humidity, the more synthetic you want to add to speed up drying time). Ramie, flax, and hemp have a lot of similarities on a fiber structure and content level, though they have some minor differences. Ramie is less flexible, hemp fibers tend to be a bit larger (and therefore more coarse feeling) than flax linen, etc. But they are all hollow bast fibers with a high cellulose content but with appreciable lignin content (vs cotton which is more pure cellulose).
It’s an amazing trend. Besides the actual product, hemp was used in the last to clear the field from weeds. My father still remembers using it solely for that purpose. Hemp doesn’t have to replace cotton, at least not everywhere. It is great for rougher fabrics and I’m very happy to see it blended it. Good job Patagonia
As a textile artist I love hemp & it's my favorite cellulose fiber. Hemp paper is also one of my favorites but it's harder to get in North America but family in Asia will send me some of both on occasion so I can play around with it in my art.
We had a local farmer where I'm from switch to hemp for a season or two. They sat harvested wrapped in tarps for what seemed like over a year. Then he started planting cotton again.
Hemp textile really shines in applications where it needs to resist wear, UV, fire, and microbial damage. Hemp upholstery, “linens”, bags, tarps, and cords are well suited to the purpose. Unlike in clothing, stiffness or scratchy-ness are no disadvantage for these. Apparently hemp bricks have been developed for building materials. I was shopping for curtain textiles recently and was very impressed with hemp’s crisp drape, colourfastness in sunlight, and flame resistance compared to other options. I would have bought it had I not discovered some adequate fabrics in my mother-in-law’s stash.
Fire? Pretty sure hemp is quite flammable. The only natural material that is truly and naturally fire resistant is wool--well wool of all kinds, but the most research has been done on sheep's wool specifically, which has a higher moisture regain than most other wools.
@justinw1765 I think I made a mistake. Hemp fabric is flammable, but the bricks made from hemp are resistant to fire. They burn very slowly, insulate from heat, and stop burning when the heat source is removed. There are video demonstrations of using a blowtorch on hempcrete which show this.
I have the hemp shirt and pants from their work line and they are very nice. different percentages of hemp in them though which leads to the shirt feeling stiff and warm while the pants feel much lighter and almost flow with you when you move. I'd recommend both.
I work in ag every day here in Central California, the highest producing agricultural area in the United States. There have been some guys that gambled on growing hemp, and lost their asses. They knew it was a gamble anyways going into it, as the market is so unstable it's a joke. There IS still cotton around here though, but most cotton since the 90's has come from China due to there cheap slave labor. BTW I've got nothing against hemp, I make money as a mechanic regardless of what the farmers grow. Anyways, cheers all !
Yeah, there's a lot of issues with growing hemp near the other stuff, sadly. Hemp has a major uphill battle in many areas, including technology lag in everything from harvest to fabric/plastics consumer products.
Hemp is Cannabis (Latin name: Cannabis Sativa), but the strains that you grow for their fibres and the strains that you grow for consumption are different. 100-200 years ago the two would have been more similar, but since Cannabis became a large industry at first for their fibres, and later for it's use as a medicinal plant/drug, the varieties have diverted. The plant that you grow for fibres is pure Cannabis Sativa, but a strain that has been cultivated to maximize stem size and minimize THC content. The strains that are grown for consumption can vary between pure Cannabis Sativa, to any amount of mix between Cannabis Sativa, Cannabis Indica and Cannabis Ruderalis, to pure Cannabis Indica (even though it's not clear if all of these are different species or just varieties on Cannabis Sativa). These strains have been cultivated to maximize THC content and flower yield, as well as making them easier to grow. It's the same thing as the Hop that is grown for use in gardens and the Hop that is grown for use in beer. Same species, different strains. A fun fact is that Hop (Humulus) is the closest relative species to Cannabis. That's why they have a similar scent. They diverted 25 million years ago into Hop and Cannabis.
Would love to see a video on Patagonia vs Arcteryx. I’ve spent a lot of time in a variety of outdoor activities and money on both brands. I tend to only buy Arcteryx these days based on material quality and fit.
i hope that in the future big brands like patagonia will be brave enough to sell 100% hemp items. for me making hemp feel like cotton is a waste. hemp is such an amazing fiber and the fabric has an amazing feel. in the beginning it is similar to linen (which lots of people already prefer for summer) but after several washes it becomes much softer without losing its drape. blending it with cotton or synthetics makes it loose that transformation and reduces it to the boring fabric we're all used to. the lack of an appropriate supply chain is indeed a problem and i hope they will help improve that as hemp becomes a more popular fiber.
I mean EVERY plant does what Hemp does with CO2. That's what plants are made out of. If plants weren't made out of carbon from the air, the soil under them would disappear due to conservation of matter. Implying cotton doesn't sequester CO2 the same way by not mentioning it is misleading... Hemp's benefits don't need that kind of reporting. This overall is a decent video, but that one part stuck out to me.
You're totally right but what matter is the amount of carbon sequestered, its the plant that sequesters the MOST: Hemp absorbs between 8 to 15T of CO2 per hectare, (a dense and old forest sequesters between :2 to 6 T of CO2 per hectar).... Point is people think forests are the lungs of the earth (which is true) but if we cultivated hemp instead of cotton we could counter balance the damage caused by the forestry industry.
I'm in Patagonia homestate of California. My colleagues converted a cotton gin to process hemp and last year we grew the first fiber hemp trial in the state. Patagonia wouldn't even come out to our field day. I haven't seen anything to indicate Patagonia is actually doing anything to accelerate American hemp production I've been in hemp since 2015.
@@Ahfuric I showed them the first hemp planting in california back in 2018 (my research plots in ventura county) and toured their HQ in 2019. Have sent them emails back and forth letting them know what we are doing im the central valley. So yes, they know who I am. I won't pretend that I'm a big shot or anything or ask for contracts or whatever but if you mean anything about "bringing hemp home," you think there would be at least some interest in what's growing in your home state.
All due respect, I genuinely don't know the answer but is the cost of production too high in California? With Patagonia's manufacture being done overseas, and there being far more forgiving climates to grow clothing materials such as hemp and cotton, maybe it simply doesn't stack up with the amount of shipping and high expenses required to source there? Perhaps they're focusing on larger producers with higher capacity? I won't pretend to have the answers, just wondering.
I had a pair of adidas made with hemp that I used to skate a few years ago. Hands down the strongest shoe I've ever owned, only skate shoe I actually out grew and had to replace.
@@Britbec there's some nice skater made collabs out there now. I know the Nike SB Ishod and the Nike Nyjah but I haven't personally worn them. They might turn out to be a good investment.
It's important to note that hemp (and linen) is not as good as cotton as clothing fabric. While it's much more durable, because of its durability, it's less comfortable around body. it's not just about the harshness of the fabric, but it's got less stretch. this lack of stretch (or more toughness) is what makes them really durable. The issue is that the fabric doesn't really change its shape along with the body movement, so people would feel more restricted. While development in processing may resolve issues lack of softness, it won't do much for lack of flexibility. I doubt that hemp will ever replace cotton in clothing in any capacity. it will probably remain as good alternative. I wish this episode was centered around hemp, rather than Patagonia. I wish it discussed more on why using hemp on house items, such as bed sheet or curtain is far more likely and beneficial.
Cotton as a material itself is not stretchy either. Cotton is spun very finely and then knit, and the knit structure of the fabric gives it it's stretch, not the fiber itself. Neither hemp or cotton or linen have any memory in their fibers- linen and hemp are bast fibers which is why they are initially stiffer, but if they are worn and washed they become very, very soft. It's a matter of educating consumers about textiles and changing the way that we interact with our clothes, not necessarily something 'wrong' with hemp.
I live in the tropics which means its HOT all year round, think 30-35 degrees celsius. Cotton is really cooling so I hope there will be new hemp based clothing that is both cooling and durable, without having to mix with unsustainable plastic fibres.
One factor behind the blends is the color dye sites of a blend are vastly more color fast than just a single material weave. You can have more colors but less durability with hemp, where cotton has been a amazing fabric for color fastness for a very long time.
If i remember correctly, an engineer at patagonia said they are using Chinese hemp but trying to transition to US hemp. I think because the help agriculture here isnt as developed as in china.
There is a 10 years old hemp Shirt from volcom stone in my wardrobe. Good material for shirts. Also use the Patagonia hampi rockpants for sportclimbing. Hemp holds up very well.
Flax linen and hemp fibers have a very similar structure and material content, but flax linen fibers tend to be smaller diameter which feels softer to the human skin. (the finer/smaller the fiber, the more soft it feels and conversely the thicker the fiber, the more coarse it feels. This is why mulberry silk feels so soft to the touch, because it is a ridiculously thin diameter fiber). Both are pretty "eco" compared to most other materials, though hemp gets a slight edge in that for needing less water and growing faster. The nice thing about hemp and linen fibers is that they are hollow. This facilitates a couple of interesting properties. They feel fairly warm when they are dry (especially linen since they are smaller fibers. The smaller the fiber, the more air it can trap/still potentially), but when they are wet, they are very cooling while not feeling as soaked as say cotton. Having less material, they also dry a bit faster than cotton and other cellulose based solid fibers. But more importantly, they feel dryer faster because that moisture is wicked to the inside and then out through that hollow, absorbent "straw" type structure. Waxed linen and hemp garments make great cold weather clothing, and unwaxed linen and hemp make great hot weather clothing.
I was at hemp demonstrations over 25 years ago to legalize the plant. Even then, I was more concerned with hemp, but something else caught on, and faster.
I have had a hemp shirt for nearly three years now I have been wearing it two or three times a week. I have also surfed in it hundreds of times and crashes repeatedly on my skateboard and MTB wearing it and the shirt has held up amazing with only a few small holes
GREAT video 🙌🏼 . Unfortunately, the rising demand for hemp textiles has encouraged mills to produce these quickly & cheaply through harmful chemical processes instead of organic/mechanical methods.
Hemp is a wonderful material..They recently changed their 100% organic cotton All-Wear shorts to a hemp/cotton blend. Not as sturdy and wears too quickly. No bueno.
i just started watching your channel, and I've watched about 3 so far. and like what i see. have you thought about doing a video(s) on the beer industry? i mean if you are going to tag nestle for their ability to gobble up stuff, then inbev and coors and the rest should keep you busy for a good long while
Environmentally speaking, yes, hemp does appear to be better than cotton (though pesticide use might increase with more hemp because that’s what happens with crops), however, one thing bugs me about the conversation. Hemp and cotton are not even in the same fiber category. Cotton is a short staple fiber(soft, 3/8-2 1/2 in long) that’s fairly soft from the get go. But hemp is a long hast fiber (multiple feet per fiber) that is fairly rough but durable. The softness you get from hemp comes from wear and stress placed on the fiber, lowering its durability. As someone else mentioned, hemp also does not have the same dyeing capacity that cotton has, though I doubt that this problem will persist with more funding. The baseline problem is you cannot use one to replace the other efficiently because their properties are different. On a macro environmental scale, you’ve made a decent argument, I just don’t think it touches the core of the issue.
I watched this several months ago, and re-watched it again just because it's that good of content! I think the way you re-shot it was a much stronger story overall.
I have 100% hemp jackets and clothing from Czech Republic, and they last aeons. I don't like hemp mixed. It's just fine pure, but it is true that it is not soft. But only slightly less soft than Levi's.
Hemp & cotton blends are nice but I'm a lyocell guy if I can find it. There's nothing like the feel of a bamboo t shirt. Soft, never itchy & surprisingly durable
Comparing fiber per plant doesn't seem an accurate way to do it. Wouldn't it be better to do fiber per area assuming standard spacing (whatever that is for each)?
I bought 2 hemp blouses from a local Hawaiian manufacturer over 20 years ago. Wonder what happened to them? I'm probably too fat to wear them after COVID anyway... Too bad. They were cute and so very COMFY
Another part of the reason why we don't grow much hemp here in the US is the lack of infrastructure. I live in a rural area of the south where cotton is king. There's many nearby cotton gins. I don't know of any hemp processors. No farmer is going to want to travel hours to deliver a load of hemp, esp with how much the market fluctuates. Whereas they always have someone nearby that want's their cotton. This can be easily overcome, but it can't just be the farmers involved. Everyone with an interest in hemp needs to be involved in all steps of the process.
The Soviet Union and People's Republic of China both promoted hemp cultivation and clothing. Patagonia would do well to learn from producers in Eastern Europe that follow that tradition. There are suit supliers in Romania with a 100-year unbroken history of using hemp.
Amazing video as always! I need to start writing down the movie clips you use, they are absolutely hilarious! Levi, your making me wish I owned less clothes so I could buy some but like you said better to use what you have. Had a video idea for you all to think on that goes with the thrifting topic. The store Plato's closet, seems to have this interesting tactic where they take only the newest of people's clothes so most people bring in a load of clothes and then walk out with the same load minus a few pieces but I wonder if there is any research on if those same people end up looking around the store while they wait for there clothes to be checked and then end up finding things they like and walk out with more clothes than they came with. Might be hard to prove any of this without data but I would bet you that is part of there business model.
About the thrifting thing. I have something to say. Ok, first, excuse me if it's not that simple to understand what am i saying because my english sucks. Then, i'm a romanian guy that lives in italy for a period of time and here, in italy, it is really hard to go buy from thrift shops because the prices are really high. I mean, they ask you to pay around 30€ for a topman (or other brands that are a bit higher, like tommy or guess) tee made from blended cotton and 40 to 50€ for a pair of shorts made from blended fabrics as well. It is nearly impossible to thrift in this country. On the other hand, in my country (which is Romania) thrifting is so low cost. I mean, there are some specific days in the month when the price for a tee (and it doesn't matter if its a no name tee or diesel/guess even philipp plein) isn't more than 20 cents (1 romanian ron). By the way, you do a really good job with your clips. I have already watched 20 videos, and i'm not stopping here. Thank you!
This is progress. Early hemp items felt like putting on a porcupine! And I have avoided it ever since. Now it sounds worth a second try. But what about bamboo clothing. It seemed like a great solution 10 yrs ago but now almost nowhere to be found? (Not looking that hard butvya know what I mean….)
Hemp is one of if not the most useful plant on earth. The industrial uses are many. And we can eat the seeds, which are a complete protein and contain omega-6. Hemp is the future.
The chemicals point is a little screwed due to how cotton is produced both scale wise and having been an industrially used product for longer. Well not the water, but the rest. Remember context is important. Also points for cotton you didn't make well make but ignored. Cotton is lighter. Means transportation is cheaper. Making it a 4 to 3 maybe. Still hemp is awesome and we should use more of it.
I am a proud cannabis user and this continuing stigma against cannabis has to stop. UA-cam needs to get with the times and treat cannabis users with respect as a number of states have already legalized it.
I can understand blending hemp with other fibers, but why on earth with polyester? We forego the opportunity of having a sustainable and biodegradable fabric.
How about the fact that Hemp paper can be recycled 10 times and wood paper only 4 times.plus it takes 10 years to grow wood to make paper and in 1 year you can grow and replant approximately3 times . so per acre hemp is more output with in a year than 1 acre of wood plus you don't have to worry about soil erosion after cutting hemp because you can immediately replant faster than to replant the trees . so better for the environment.
hemp material corrections are little bit itchy for skin. Should use more good enzyme to make more silky stuff. Should go to Japan and find good enzyme. It can transform more silky materials.
I'm disappointed that just talking about weed more than the one time you say MJ during a history section would get you demonetized, yet I can go to my local store and buy it legally, just confusing. Awesome videos tho, keep CRUSHING it: always great research and well made.
Well at least they are recycled polyester, else I would write the hemp off completely. I have to thrift my clothes now, I have lost 70 pounds the past two years. I took on COVID by trying to be healthier, especially when I learned that overweight/obese/morbidly obese people had less survival rates. Now that I am nearing a more normal weight, the weight loss has slowed down. I love Pantagonia, North Face, however, since I am losing weight I would probably thrift it. Yeah I will be hitting Goodwill when I get back to the states. Why, because they offer jobs to people like me in the temporary jobs market. I am autistic, formerly diagnosed as Aspergers, I refuse to use words like high or low functioning. I refuse to support a man who believes he wants to cure me. Thus I also deactivated my twitter account yesterday.
Thanks so much for sharing! We agree, thrifting is definitely the ideal option for sourcing these brands but we're stoked to see Patagonia putting in the effort to innovate with these sustainable materials. Glad you enjoyed the content!! 👏👍
Processing hemp is the expensive part and that’s a problem for the farmers. . A decordinator is needed to seperate the yarn from the shiv and think last time I looked the cheap ones are 1/4 mil. If you don’t have one locally you’re shipping it a long way to get processed.
@@GreatSageSunWukong I remember reading a story where this woman literally died from an asthmatic attack due to a developed cannabis allergy from working in one of their greenhouses.
Hey everyone! This was our first ever video on this channel but it unfortunately got age-restricted/demonetized after posting. In celebration of 100k subscribers (what!!!) we've reshot this and reuploaded without any explicit material. Thanks for 100k!! 🎉🎉
I was super confused because yesterday i saw the thumbnail for the video but it was age restricted (for the word h3mp i guess)
@@fairlyfashionablefella8645 sadly yeah... thanks for clicking anyways! ❤🙏🏻
It is ridiculous, on my opinion, to be demonetized just for a single word use, even if it is use in a decent context. This witch hunt is doing no good to anyone.
You could always look at joining Nebula in case of future demonetization?
There is a scammer in your comments section pretending to be you so people will direct message them because they have been told that they have qualified for a prize. If you look under my comment then you will probably see one.
I'm an electrician and I wear a Patagonia work jacket made out of hemp, on top of the environmental benefits it's also ridiculously durable. This jacket has outlasted at least 4 pairs of Carhartt pants and I'm crawling around all sorts of attics and crawlspaces so it gets worked.
Hey, that's good to know that it's actually as durable as they say it is! Thanks for taking the time to join us here and comment, Carson 💪
Work on a farm 12 hours a day in the field or shop. Patagonias hemp blend fabric is a true innovation. Durable and tough but breathable and broken in on day 1. the fact it’s good for the environment only makes me love it more.
Maybe it's time for a pair of Patagonia Hemp Iron Forge Pants
Looks like I’m getting me a jacket 😏
Thats totally good to know
I've had a Patagonia short sleeves shirt, in the 90s, that was 100% hemp... and a little harsh on the skin because textile was quite thick and not so supple; but it was so strong. Several years later, a new one in cotton-hemp blend was much pleasant to wear, but slightly less resistant.
Hemp's come a long way in terms of softness, especially since it's often mixed with other materials. Glad to hear it lasted you so long!
@@FutureProofTV so the addition of Hemp it just a clever move for introducing a new material and getting more variety of textile for the future market where long lasting product now was picked up pace for a new trend as it should because the ever rotating trend.
@@raifikarj6698 It's not just that hemp is longer lasting, it's that it also requires FAR less water to grow. This could be a revolution in countries such as Australia, which produces cotton but is the driest inhabited continent on earth. I'm not sure how to ready the rest of your sentence, if you could rephrase, I'd be happy to address those points too. I believe you're commenting on the long-lasting nature of hemp, but that it's less durable when blended with other materials, this is based on the use case.
For work wear, they can use a higher percentage of hemp for increased durability, but in everyday wear, consumers prefer softer and more comfortable clothing, so they can reduce the hemp blend accordingly. Either way it still requires less water, less pesticides and is more durable than standard cotton
Hemp works a lot better for outer layers and webbing IMO. Make bags and vests out of that.
@@prfwrx2497 Could hemp also be great for trousers?
I'm in the custom packaging business, and we've experimented with hemp materials for reusable bags, to great results! It's nice to know that materials and where they are sourced is important with the biggest of businesses.
Kudos to 100k, loving the content that's being pumped out!
Hemp reusable bags - what a great idea! Thanks for the support, glad to have you on board!!
Hey I love this, please can you cite any articles or whatever I could read to learn about this? As in using hemp for packaging, the pros and cons and barriers, thanks
Wrote a business plan for a hemp decordication facility for my MBA. A decordication facility is where you separate the fibers for bast and stalk of the plant for industrial uses is clothing, filters etc. I learned Soo much, hemp is a the true king of plants.
Hi, Im trying to do something similar here in South America for my MBA. Could you give me a hand?
I am a docent with The Traveling Hemp Museum. This was music to my ears. We educate about the past, present and future of hemp. This is both present and future. A good bit of the past to have included was that Levi Jean's were born from recycled hemp sails in San Francisco. They made the most durable pants for the miners crawling through rocky tunnels. The brass rivets were to hold the pockets together when filled with gold. Hemp clothing also helps prevent skin fungus, which is one of many reasons it is the primary ingredient for many military uniforms. Socks in particular.
The Patagonia 55% hemp, 18% organic , and 27% recycled polyester clothes are wonderful. I have two of their Ferrier shirts and their unlined work chore coat , and they are bulletproof. They are also very soft and comfortable. A hemp fan for life.
Hemp used to be in common use in pre-occupation Japan, but with the US occupation came very strict rules against it for political and financial reasons. But historically, there is a strong tradition of using it for fabric and other uses. I hope this knowledge can once again be put to use.
Very curious on further information on how theyd use it. If you would happen to have any books or things to search up I would gladly appreciate it
the same in China except not due to political reason but brainwash from global fashion industry😂
@@dontsueme79hemp is used to make waterproof cloaks thousand years ago in Asia.
Comparing production of hemp and cotton on a per-plant basis doesn’t make sense. It should be on a per acre basis. Otherwise, great video.
Great step for Patagonia. I'd love to see more companies use it too as well as ramie and flax.
Totally agree! Thanks for joining us here and sharing, Jailyn ✨
Flax?
Flax linen has been used forever in more high end garments particularly. Usually sold for summer wear. It is a great fabric for hot weather--all but the most humid--like jungle humid. (The higher the humidity, the more synthetic you want to add to speed up drying time).
Ramie, flax, and hemp have a lot of similarities on a fiber structure and content level, though they have some minor differences. Ramie is less flexible, hemp fibers tend to be a bit larger (and therefore more coarse feeling) than flax linen, etc. But they are all hollow bast fibers with a high cellulose content but with appreciable lignin content (vs cotton which is more pure cellulose).
It’s an amazing trend.
Besides the actual product, hemp was used in the last to clear the field from weeds. My father still remembers using it solely for that purpose.
Hemp doesn’t have to replace cotton, at least not everywhere. It is great for rougher fabrics and I’m very happy to see it blended it.
Good job Patagonia
As a textile artist I love hemp & it's my favorite cellulose fiber. Hemp paper is also one of my favorites but it's harder to get in North America but family in Asia will send me some of both on occasion so I can play around with it in my art.
Comment back if you want this in bulk, I can supply those to you.
We had a local farmer where I'm from switch to hemp for a season or two. They sat harvested wrapped in tarps for what seemed like over a year. Then he started planting cotton again.
Ah darn 😓 fingers crossed slowly but surely the industry will be as profitable as cotton is
I also brought a pair of hemp pants from Patagonia back in 2018, still wearing it in summer, very light, comfy and breathable. LOVE it
smokeable shirts does seems like a gd time
Agreed 😂💯
Smoking hemp will not get you high
Hemp textile really shines in applications where it needs to resist wear, UV, fire, and microbial damage. Hemp upholstery, “linens”, bags, tarps, and cords are well suited to the purpose. Unlike in clothing, stiffness or scratchy-ness are no disadvantage for these. Apparently hemp bricks have been developed for building materials.
I was shopping for curtain textiles recently and was very impressed with hemp’s crisp drape, colourfastness in sunlight, and flame resistance compared to other options. I would have bought it had I not discovered some adequate fabrics in my mother-in-law’s stash.
Fire? Pretty sure hemp is quite flammable. The only natural material that is truly and naturally fire resistant is wool--well wool of all kinds, but the most research has been done on sheep's wool specifically, which has a higher moisture regain than most other wools.
@justinw1765 I think I made a mistake. Hemp fabric is flammable, but the bricks made from hemp are resistant to fire. They burn very slowly, insulate from heat, and stop burning when the heat source is removed. There are video demonstrations of using a blowtorch on hempcrete which show this.
I have the hemp shirt and pants from their work line and they are very nice. different percentages of hemp in them though which leads to the shirt feeling stiff and warm while the pants feel much lighter and almost flow with you when you move. I'd recommend both.
I just found your channel today and I'm binge-watching every video you've uploaded and loved it! Thanksssss for the great content 🧡🧡
I work in ag every day here in Central California, the highest producing agricultural area in the United States. There have been some guys that gambled on growing hemp, and lost their asses. They knew it was a gamble anyways going into it, as the market is so unstable it's a joke. There IS still cotton around here though, but most cotton since the 90's has come from China due to there cheap slave labor. BTW I've got nothing against hemp, I make money as a mechanic regardless of what the farmers grow. Anyways, cheers all !
Yeah, there's a lot of issues with growing hemp near the other stuff, sadly. Hemp has a major uphill battle in many areas, including technology lag in everything from harvest to fabric/plastics consumer products.
Hemp is Cannabis (Latin name: Cannabis Sativa), but the strains that you grow for their fibres and the strains that you grow for consumption are different. 100-200 years ago the two would have been more similar, but since Cannabis became a large industry at first for their fibres, and later for it's use as a medicinal plant/drug, the varieties have diverted. The plant that you grow for fibres is pure Cannabis Sativa, but a strain that has been cultivated to maximize stem size and minimize THC content. The strains that are grown for consumption can vary between pure Cannabis Sativa, to any amount of mix between Cannabis Sativa, Cannabis Indica and Cannabis Ruderalis, to pure Cannabis Indica (even though it's not clear if all of these are different species or just varieties on Cannabis Sativa). These strains have been cultivated to maximize THC content and flower yield, as well as making them easier to grow. It's the same thing as the Hop that is grown for use in gardens and the Hop that is grown for use in beer. Same species, different strains. A fun fact is that Hop (Humulus) is the closest relative species to Cannabis. That's why they have a similar scent. They diverted 25 million years ago into Hop and Cannabis.
Great video! Thanks for putting this out there!
Would love to see a video on Patagonia vs Arcteryx. I’ve spent a lot of time in a variety of outdoor activities and money on both brands. I tend to only buy Arcteryx these days based on material quality and fit.
I prefer arcteryx or outdoor research to Patagonia. The one thing that pat still makes that I love are their lightweight puffy down sweaters.
My whole thing is the warranty on the pat stuff, especially their workwear line
if we could get the technology for hemp based plastics really kicking off too that'd be great
That would be super cool to see!!
More single use carbohydrates!
i hope that in the future big brands like patagonia will be brave enough to sell 100% hemp items. for me making hemp feel like cotton is a waste. hemp is such an amazing fiber and the fabric has an amazing feel. in the beginning it is similar to linen (which lots of people already prefer for summer) but after several washes it becomes much softer without losing its drape. blending it with cotton or synthetics makes it loose that transformation and reduces it to the boring fabric we're all used to. the lack of an appropriate supply chain is indeed a problem and i hope they will help improve that as hemp becomes a more popular fiber.
I mean EVERY plant does what Hemp does with CO2. That's what plants are made out of. If plants weren't made out of carbon from the air, the soil under them would disappear due to conservation of matter. Implying cotton doesn't sequester CO2 the same way by not mentioning it is misleading...
Hemp's benefits don't need that kind of reporting. This overall is a decent video, but that one part stuck out to me.
You're totally right but what matter is the amount of carbon sequestered, its the plant that sequesters the MOST: Hemp absorbs between 8 to 15T of CO2 per hectare, (a dense and old forest sequesters between :2 to 6 T of CO2 per hectar).... Point is people think forests are the lungs of the earth (which is true) but if we cultivated hemp instead of cotton we could counter balance the damage caused by the forestry industry.
I'm in Patagonia homestate of California. My colleagues converted a cotton gin to process hemp and last year we grew the first fiber hemp trial in the state. Patagonia wouldn't even come out to our field day. I haven't seen anything to indicate Patagonia is actually doing anything to accelerate American hemp production I've been in hemp since 2015.
Bruh I mean they probs don’t know who u are and ur too small of an operation to have credibility of a major company to back you.
@@Ahfuric I showed them the first hemp planting in california back in 2018 (my research plots in ventura county) and toured their HQ in 2019. Have sent them emails back and forth letting them know what we are doing im the central valley. So yes, they know who I am. I won't pretend that I'm a big shot or anything or ask for contracts or whatever but if you mean anything about "bringing hemp home," you think there would be at least some interest in what's growing in your home state.
@@tonydeveyra4611 Yeah it would be nice for some communication from the companies so that farmers know what to adjust.
All due respect, I genuinely don't know the answer but is the cost of production too high in California? With Patagonia's manufacture being done overseas, and there being far more forgiving climates to grow clothing materials such as hemp and cotton, maybe it simply doesn't stack up with the amount of shipping and high expenses required to source there? Perhaps they're focusing on larger producers with higher capacity? I won't pretend to have the answers, just wondering.
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I had a pair of adidas made with hemp that I used to skate a few years ago. Hands down the strongest shoe I've ever owned, only skate shoe I actually out grew and had to replace.
Damn dude! At one point i was going through skate shoes every season so to hear that you out grew them is crazy.
@@Pheatan me outgrowing shoes in general almost never happened. Typically got holes in soles before then, but yeah, these guys just lasted.
I wish they still made them! My kid skates for hours every day, and he goes through so many shoes, it's unreal!
@@Britbec there's some nice skater made collabs out there now. I know the Nike SB Ishod and the Nike Nyjah but I haven't personally worn them.
They might turn out to be a good investment.
8000kicks make hemp skate shoes that are super durable
It's important to note that hemp (and linen) is not as good as cotton as clothing fabric. While it's much more durable, because of its durability, it's less comfortable around body. it's not just about the harshness of the fabric, but it's got less stretch. this lack of stretch (or more toughness) is what makes them really durable. The issue is that the fabric doesn't really change its shape along with the body movement, so people would feel more restricted. While development in processing may resolve issues lack of softness, it won't do much for lack of flexibility. I doubt that hemp will ever replace cotton in clothing in any capacity. it will probably remain as good alternative.
I wish this episode was centered around hemp, rather than Patagonia. I wish it discussed more on why using hemp on house items, such as bed sheet or curtain is far more likely and beneficial.
Linen is pretty great for shirts. you can also get 100% linen shirts from major brands and they are just perfect for summertime.
Cotton as a material itself is not stretchy either. Cotton is spun very finely and then knit, and the knit structure of the fabric gives it it's stretch, not the fiber itself. Neither hemp or cotton or linen have any memory in their fibers- linen and hemp are bast fibers which is why they are initially stiffer, but if they are worn and washed they become very, very soft. It's a matter of educating consumers about textiles and changing the way that we interact with our clothes, not necessarily something 'wrong' with hemp.
I live in the tropics which means its HOT all year round, think 30-35 degrees celsius. Cotton is really cooling so I hope there will be new hemp based clothing that is both cooling and durable, without having to mix with unsustainable plastic fibres.
Isn’t Linen what you’re looking for?
One factor behind the blends is the color dye sites of a blend are vastly more color fast than just a single material weave. You can have more colors but less durability with hemp, where cotton has been a amazing fabric for color fastness for a very long time.
If i remember correctly, an engineer at patagonia said they are using Chinese hemp but trying to transition to US hemp. I think because the help agriculture here isnt as developed as in china.
There is a 10 years old hemp Shirt from volcom stone in my wardrobe. Good material for shirts. Also use the Patagonia hampi rockpants for sportclimbing. Hemp holds up very well.
Flax linen and hemp fibers have a very similar structure and material content, but flax linen fibers tend to be smaller diameter which feels softer to the human skin. (the finer/smaller the fiber, the more soft it feels and conversely the thicker the fiber, the more coarse it feels. This is why mulberry silk feels so soft to the touch, because it is a ridiculously thin diameter fiber).
Both are pretty "eco" compared to most other materials, though hemp gets a slight edge in that for needing less water and growing faster.
The nice thing about hemp and linen fibers is that they are hollow. This facilitates a couple of interesting properties. They feel fairly warm when they are dry (especially linen since they are smaller fibers. The smaller the fiber, the more air it can trap/still potentially), but when they are wet, they are very cooling while not feeling as soaked as say cotton. Having less material, they also dry a bit faster than cotton and other cellulose based solid fibers. But more importantly, they feel dryer faster because that moisture is wicked to the inside and then out through that hollow, absorbent "straw" type structure.
Waxed linen and hemp garments make great cold weather clothing, and unwaxed linen and hemp make great hot weather clothing.
I love my Patagonia hemp shirts. They're tough and comfortable.I still wear one I inherited from Dad and I' ll wear it til it falls off me.
I was at hemp demonstrations over 25 years ago to legalize the plant. Even then, I was more concerned with hemp, but something else caught on, and faster.
Recently bought two of their hemp-cotton blend shirts on sale. They are fantastic!
I have had a hemp shirt for nearly three years now I have been wearing it two or three times a week. I have also surfed in it hundreds of times and crashes repeatedly on my skateboard and MTB wearing it and the shirt has held up amazing with only a few small holes
Keep it up! Love your content and videos!
Thanks so much! Glad to hear it 🤗🌞
I have hemp and cotton shirts and prefer the feel and drape of hemp tbh so this is great!
Yeah they feel really high quality, eh? Glad you enjoy them !!
GREAT video 🙌🏼 . Unfortunately, the rising demand for hemp textiles has encouraged mills to produce these quickly & cheaply through harmful chemical processes instead of organic/mechanical methods.
Hemp is a wonderful material..They recently changed their 100% organic cotton All-Wear shorts to a hemp/cotton blend. Not as sturdy and wears too quickly. No bueno.
Hmm the mix of the two fabrics might not be as durable as the nonblended counterpart - good to know! Thanks for taking the time to share 🙌🤙
All right that's it - I'm moving to Kansas and becoming a Hemp farmer.
i just started watching your channel, and I've watched about 3 so far. and like what i see.
have you thought about doing a video(s) on the beer industry? i mean if you are going to tag nestle for their ability to gobble up stuff, then inbev and coors and the rest should keep you busy for a good long while
Environmentally speaking, yes, hemp does appear to be better than cotton (though pesticide use might increase with more hemp because that’s what happens with crops), however, one thing bugs me about the conversation. Hemp and cotton are not even in the same fiber category. Cotton is a short staple fiber(soft, 3/8-2 1/2 in long) that’s fairly soft from the get go. But hemp is a long hast fiber (multiple feet per fiber) that is fairly rough but durable. The softness you get from hemp comes from wear and stress placed on the fiber, lowering its durability. As someone else mentioned, hemp also does not have the same dyeing capacity that cotton has, though I doubt that this problem will persist with more funding. The baseline problem is you cannot use one to replace the other efficiently because their properties are different. On a macro environmental scale, you’ve made a decent argument, I just don’t think it touches the core of the issue.
I watched this several months ago, and re-watched it again just because it's that good of content! I think the way you re-shot it was a much stronger story overall.
Thanks so much, Jakob! We're pretty proud of how far we've come since the original video 🤗🎉
I have 100% hemp jackets and clothing from Czech Republic, and they last aeons. I don't like hemp mixed. It's just fine pure, but it is true that it is not soft. But only slightly less soft than Levi's.
Hemp & cotton blends are nice but I'm a lyocell guy if I can find it. There's nothing like the feel of a bamboo t shirt. Soft, never itchy & surprisingly durable
One of my favorite channels, love the content and always learn something new.
Comparing fiber per plant doesn't seem an accurate way to do it. Wouldn't it be better to do fiber per area assuming standard spacing (whatever that is for each)?
I bought 2 hemp blouses from a local Hawaiian manufacturer over 20 years ago. Wonder what happened to them? I'm probably too fat to wear them after COVID anyway... Too bad. They were cute and so very COMFY
Another part of the reason why we don't grow much hemp here in the US is the lack of infrastructure. I live in a rural area of the south where cotton is king. There's many nearby cotton gins. I don't know of any hemp processors. No farmer is going to want to travel hours to deliver a load of hemp, esp with how much the market fluctuates. Whereas they always have someone nearby that want's their cotton.
This can be easily overcome, but it can't just be the farmers involved. Everyone with an interest in hemp needs to be involved in all steps of the process.
I have hemp shorts, much more comfortable then any other I own.
Not sure what blend it is but it's a thicker material.
The Soviet Union and People's Republic of China both promoted hemp cultivation and clothing. Patagonia would do well to learn from producers in Eastern Europe that follow that tradition. There are suit supliers in Romania with a 100-year unbroken history of using hemp.
You should also check out their NetPlus fabric now too.
Amazing video as always! I need to start writing down the movie clips you use, they are absolutely hilarious! Levi, your making me wish I owned less clothes so I could buy some but like you said better to use what you have.
Had a video idea for you all to think on that goes with the thrifting topic. The store Plato's closet, seems to have this interesting tactic where they take only the newest of people's clothes so most people bring in a load of clothes and then walk out with the same load minus a few pieces but I wonder if there is any research on if those same people end up looking around the store while they wait for there clothes to be checked and then end up finding things they like and walk out with more clothes than they came with. Might be hard to prove any of this without data but I would bet you that is part of there business model.
In Costa Rica, my home country, the government has been impulsing hemp production by legalizing it and giving permits to plant it
Cotton for towels, bamboo for underwear and socks and hemp for everything else!
About the thrifting thing. I have something to say. Ok, first, excuse me if it's not that simple to understand what am i saying because my english sucks. Then, i'm a romanian guy that lives in italy for a period of time and here, in italy, it is really hard to go buy from thrift shops because the prices are really high. I mean, they ask you to pay around 30€ for a topman (or other brands that are a bit higher, like tommy or guess) tee made from blended cotton and 40 to 50€ for a pair of shorts made from blended fabrics as well. It is nearly impossible to thrift in this country. On the other hand, in my country (which is Romania) thrifting is so low cost. I mean, there are some specific days in the month when the price for a tee (and it doesn't matter if its a no name tee or diesel/guess even philipp plein) isn't more than 20 cents (1 romanian ron). By the way, you do a really good job with your clips. I have already watched 20 videos, and i'm not stopping here. Thank you!
Brilliant video!
At this point the channel could be called “The Patagonia hype”
I would love a video about House of Marley 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Ooh good idea! We'll add that to our list of future video suggestions. Thanks, Jean Carlo 👋
@@FutureProofTV great! Love your videos btw
My new Hemp shorts survived a nosedive off my onewheel at 20mph
Alright, your simping worked. I’m convinced
love your vids ❤️
Glad you enjoy them, Pablo! 🙌
Great job!
i love this channel so much
How come you didn't add a round comparing the two fabrics? how they feel, temperature etc
most people buy a brand because its the new cool thing, most of them don't care about what material its made of
This man is trying so hard to get a Patagonia sponsorship… and to be fair it’s pretty ingenious
This is progress. Early hemp items felt like putting on a porcupine! And I have avoided it ever since. Now it sounds worth a second try. But what about bamboo clothing. It seemed like a great solution 10 yrs ago but now almost nowhere to be found? (Not looking that hard butvya know what I mean….)
Iono man but I’ve been wearing pat since I came out the womb.
Hemp is one of if not the most useful plant on earth. The industrial uses are many. And we can eat the seeds, which are a complete protein and contain omega-6.
Hemp is the future.
Any plans to do a video about Crocs ? I not understand the current appeal to the younger crowd
Round 6:
Hemp leaves can be smoked and baked.
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Can you do a video talking about Hemp vs Linen, and which sustainable fiber is better. Please :)
Can you talk about Patagonia still plastic wrapping their clothing?
I really hated the fact that hemp is so hated by the laws, regulations, and politicians.
Love Patagonia
why the reupload? :o
We re-shot + re-uploaded due to age restriction issues on the previous one and to celebrate 100k subscribers!!
Trust in hemp ❤
The chemicals point is a little screwed due to how cotton is produced both scale wise and having been an industrially used product for longer. Well not the water, but the rest. Remember context is important. Also points for cotton you didn't make well make but ignored. Cotton is lighter. Means transportation is cheaper. Making it a 4 to 3 maybe. Still hemp is awesome and we should use more of it.
Hemp leaves can also be made into paper, or feed for animals and hemp seed oil is edible for humans. You don't need to pick you can have all three.
I am a proud cannabis user and this continuing stigma against cannabis has to stop. UA-cam needs to get with the times and treat cannabis users with respect as a number of states have already legalized it.
There's still no reason to promote cannabis, and there's no benefit to smoking it either
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I swear I've seen this video before
Haha we re-shot + re-uploaded due to age restriction issues on the previous one and to celebrate 100k subscribers!!
I can understand blending hemp with other fibers, but why on earth with polyester? We forego the opportunity of having a sustainable and biodegradable fabric.
You forgot it takes more processing then cotton to turn it into useful fibers and that takes energy and money so is more intensive.
snoop dog already made a hemp jacket it's very nice. but hemp can be used for alot more than cloth even plastic for car fenders
wait so how does it clean the soil, but yet you say it takes bad things from the air and deposits it in the roots and soil? how does that work
Sounds good but personally I am going to just keep wearing my same old clothes and buy from thrift stores. I don't see why I need to buy new clothes
How about the fact that Hemp paper can be recycled 10 times and wood paper only 4 times.plus it takes 10 years to grow wood to make paper and in 1 year you can grow and replant approximately3 times . so per acre hemp is more output with in a year than 1 acre of wood plus you don't have to worry about soil erosion after cutting hemp because you can immediately replant faster than to replant the trees . so better for the environment.
hemp material corrections are little bit itchy for skin.
Should use more good enzyme to make more silky stuff.
Should go to Japan and find good enzyme.
It can transform more silky materials.
Still waiting for a Wool/Hemp blend shirts and hoodies
The thing about the carbon storage with hemp is you need to farm it in a no till environment you can’t b digging up the ground and leaving it exposed
If its organic they would probably have think of that
Hemp will succed! 😊
I'm disappointed that just talking about weed more than the one time you say MJ during a history section would get you demonetized, yet I can go to my local store and buy it legally, just confusing. Awesome videos tho, keep CRUSHING it: always great research and well made.
I have super sensitive skin so feel is a feel problem with me.
Generally I can only wear cotton, tho I would try hemp clothes.
Well at least they are recycled polyester, else I would write the hemp off completely. I have to thrift my clothes now, I have lost 70 pounds the past two years. I took on COVID by trying to be healthier, especially when I learned that overweight/obese/morbidly obese people had less survival rates. Now that I am nearing a more normal weight, the weight loss has slowed down. I love Pantagonia, North Face, however, since I am losing weight I would probably thrift it. Yeah I will be hitting Goodwill when I get back to the states. Why, because they offer jobs to people like me in the temporary jobs market. I am autistic, formerly diagnosed as Aspergers, I refuse to use words like high or low functioning. I refuse to support a man who believes he wants to cure me. Thus I also deactivated my twitter account yesterday.
Thanks so much for sharing! We agree, thrifting is definitely the ideal option for sourcing these brands but we're stoked to see Patagonia putting in the effort to innovate with these sustainable materials. Glad you enjoyed the content!! 👏👍
Processing hemp is the expensive part and that’s a problem for the farmers. . A decordinator is needed to seperate the yarn from the shiv and think last time I looked the cheap ones are 1/4 mil. If you don’t have one locally you’re shipping it a long way to get processed.
Personally I cannot use any hemp based products whatsoever, not even CBD oil because of allergies.
yeah I'm allergic too, I'm sick of this crap being pushed everywhere, I actually googled hemp allergy specifically and its actually pretty common.
@@GreatSageSunWukong I remember reading a story where this woman literally died from an asthmatic attack due to a developed cannabis allergy from working in one of their greenhouses.
@@skeinofadifferentcolor2090 I was reading that skin contact conditions were very common with farmers, rashes hives that sort of thing.